I have often wondered that persons who make the boast of professing the Christian religion—namely love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men—should quarrel with such rancorous animosity and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues which they profess, is the readiest criteria of their faith.
[Spinoza, Tractatus Theologica-Politicus, chap. 6 quoted in Moo, Douglas J., The Letter of James (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publighing Co., 2000), pg. 181]
Friday, September 29, 2006
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