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For centuries Christians have referred to the New Testament for guidance on moral conduct. But did the writers of the New Testament themselves agree on such questions as divorce, political obedience, wealth and the toleration of other religions? And have their often inconsistent views any relevance today? In Ethics and the New Testament, the author applies strict critical standards to the...

all … love one another’; and James 2:8, where, as in Matthew, obedience to the command to love the neighbour entails obedience to the whole Law). In the Pastoral Epistles, love is placed alongside other qualities (1 Tim. 1:14; 2:15; 4:12; 6:11; 2 Tim. 1:7, 13, 2:22, 3:10; Titus 2:2), and has lost the brilliance with which it stands out in the books we have just discussed. The verb to love does not appear once. In the admittedly limited ethical matter in the Epistle to the Hebrews, the verb does not
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