What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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Be Reconciled to Your Brother
The words that declare that whoever shall say rakka or you fall commits a great sin always seemed most strange and unintelligible to me. If the words forbid abusive language, why are such weak epithets chosen? And why was there so awful a threat against one who might, perhaps inadvertently, use as inoffensive a word as rakka, that is a worthless fellow? I felt sure that there was the same misunderstanding here as I had found in the words do not judge. The interpretation which destroyed the direct and clear meaning of the text was based on the words, without a cause. Their omission would render the whole perfectly clear, but the canonical gospel in which stand the words
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