What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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Is There a Harmony Between the Verses Seventeen and Twenty of the Fifth Chapter of St. Matthew?
The seventeenth and eighteenth verses of the fifth chapter of St. Matthew had in my former studies of the gospel struck me by their obscurity and had raised doubts in my mind. On a second reading of the same verses seventeen to twenty, which had seemed so unintelligible to me, their meaning flashed full upon me. When I at last really understood the clear and simple meaning of Christ's doctrine, I thought that these two commandments were in direct opposition to each other. There could be no question of harmony between them, or of the one being an amplification of the other. It was necessary to accept either the one or the other. This again was not the result of my having discovered anything new
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