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In this commentary, Radner offers an interesting perspective on Leviticus. Though on the surface Leviticus is a book of laws concerning sacrifices, worship, the priesthood, and many other subjects, at the heart of the book is the underlying message that God is holy and requires his children to be holy. In our quest for holiness, we know that we will constantly fall short of God’s requirements....

all readings of Scripture are to be judged: “Look at all the prescribed ceremonies and all the commandments not [explicitly] directed toward charity, and it will be seen that they are figurative.… Everything which does not lead to charity is figurative. The sole object of Scripture is charity” (1966: frags. 267, 270). And this charity, encompassed by the exfoliating figurative expositions of the scriptural text, takes in the world: “God diversified this single precept of charity,” Pascal concludes
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