suggestion in no way impossible and answered him straight out, “Whatever is offensive to you yourself, do not do that to your neighbor. That is the whole law. Everything else is interpretation.”1 If the same man were to go today to some learned Christian theologian or other and ask him to give him, in five minutes, a brief introduction to the essence of Christianity, then probably all the professors would say that that was impossible: They would in any case need six semesters alone for the basic