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“We have reduced all virtues to one: being nice. And, we measure Jesus by our standard instead of measuring our standard by Him.” For the Christian, explains Peter Kreeft, being virtuous is not a means to the end of pleasure, comfort and happiness. Virtue is a word that means “manly strength.” But how do we know when we are being meek—or just cowardly? When is our anger righteous—and when is it a...

The fifth and remaining interpretation is the one that naturally emerges from the text, that the sermon is for us, for all, for our individual lives here and now, however hard it is. But what then of the puzzle? What of its hardness, its impracticability? To solve our puzzle, let us return to interpretation four, the liberal-humanist-socialist interpretation and look more closely at what is mistaken about it, for this mistake will lead us by contrast to the truth that solves our puzzle. According
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