[Officium]
S. Joannis Gualberti Abbatis

[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent Máté Apostol kőnyvéből
!Matt 5:43-48
Azon időben így szólt Jézus tanítványaihoz: Hallottátok a parancsot: Szeresd felebarátodat, és gyűlöld ellenségedet. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
!Bk. i., Cowan. onMatth. v. and vi.
 But I say unto you Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. There are many who judge of the commandments of the Lord by their own weakness, and not by the strength of His Saints and so deem Him to have commanded things impossible. These are they who think that not to hate their enemies is all that they are able to do and that to command us to love them, is to command more than man's nature can bear. It behoveth then to know, that this which Christ commandeth is not impossible, albeit perfect. This is what David did in respect of Saul and Absalom the martyr Stephen also prayed for his enemies, even while they were stoning him and Paul could wish that himself were accursed from Christ for his persecutors. (Rom. ix. well as taught, when He said Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. (Luke xxiii. 34.)