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love of enemies meaning civility towards mean-spirited individuals.[1]
Commentators disagree on whether Jesus' command to love enemies should be seen as a markedly new revelation or a continuation of the Old Testament ethics.[2]
the ethical command of kindness is rooted in the hope of conversion of the adversary [2]
Paul's curses in 1 Corinthians 16:22 and 2 Timothy 4:14 potentially contradicts Jesus teaching on loving enemies and not cursing [2]
love of enemies as universal benevolence, without significantly having significant bearing on ethics or prohibiting us from hating enemies as well. [3]
Tertullian argued that love of friends is common to all people, but love of enemies is a virtue particular to Christians. [4][5]
Jonathan Edwards recognized the goodness and good theology of non-Christians [6]
Jonathan Edwards believes Greek and Roman moralists had already recognized that we should love enemies[7]
love of enemies is the sign of inward regeneration, and is impossible without this [8]
tax collectors for Rome in Jesus' day were regarded as thieves[9]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pitman, John Rogers (1852). A practical commentary on our ... Lord's sermon on the Mount, valedictory address to his disciples, and parables. p. 74f. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ a b c Fuller, Andrew (1845). The Complete Works of Rev. Andrew Fuller: With a Memoir of His Life, by Andrew Gunton Fuller : Reprinted from the Third London Edition. The Complete Works of Rev. Andrew Fuller: With a Memoir of His Life, by Andrew Gunton Fuller : Reprinted from the Third London Edition. American Baptist Publication Society. p. 573. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ Fuller 1845, p. 573-575. sfn error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFFuller1845 (help)
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Tertullian (1890s) [180CE]. . Translated by Thelwall, Sydney. T. & T. Clark. Chapter 1..
- ^ Schaff, Philip (2010). History of the Christian Church Vol. II. Church history series. Revelation Insight Publishing Company. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-936392-07-0. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ McDermott, G.R. (2000). Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. Religion in America Series. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-513274-8. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ Edwards, Jonathan. Misc. p. 1023., cited in McDermott 2000, p. 135
- ^ Turford, H. (1845). The Grounds of a Holy Life: Or, The Way by which Many who Had Been Heathens, Came to be Renowned Christians ; and Such as are Now Sinners, May Come to be Numbered with Saints, with Little Or No Outward Preaching : to which is Added, Paul's Speech to Titus, Called the First Bishop of Crete : and Also, A True Touchstone, Or Trial of Christianity. J. Comly. p. 103. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ Pitman, John Rogers (1852). A practical commentary on our ... Lord's sermon on the Mount, valedictory address to his disciples, and parables. p. 74f. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
