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According to the gospels, Jesus said the greatest commandment was to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.” [38] The scripture in Deuteronomy to which he referred is known in modern times as the Shema, a declaration emphasizing the oneness of God and the sole worship of God by Israel. [39]
Rather than use an idol, God chose to reveal himself in words, by working through people, and by working in history. [36] According to the Book of Joshua, Abraham came from a land and a family that worshiped strange gods. [37] However, when their God revealed himself to Abraham and called him to leave his native land for Canaan, he did so. [38]
Thou Shalt Love - Sister Maurice Schnell. The Great Commandment (or Greatest Commandment) [a] is a name used in the New Testament to describe the first of two commandments cited by Jesus in Matthew 22:35–40, Mark 12:28–34, and in answer to him in Luke 10:27a:
‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship, and him alone shall you serve.’” In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. The English Standard Version translates the passage as:
Glossa Ordinaria: "Because the Lord knew that many would doubt respecting the foregoing matter, namely, that the Jews would not receive Christ whom the Gentile world has so willingly received, He here makes answer to their thoughts; And Jesus answered and said, I confess unto thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth." [4]
Augustine: "It is a part of sound doctrine, that when man has any other means, he should not tempt the Lord his God." [4] Theodotus: "And it is to tempt God, in anything to expose one’s self to danger without cause." [4] Jerome: "the required texts are taken from the book of Deuteronomy only, that He might shew the sacraments of the second ...
In the season 1 finale “Sold,” everything comes to light. Lydia, Paul, and their daughter Emily have been living under the assumption that Emily accidentally fired the bullet that killed her ...
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().