Daily Bible Verses | Jewish Law | Sermon On The Mount | Jesus’ Jewish Heritage | Transformation | Christian Faith And Prayer | Swear Not At All
In Jesus’ time, the swearing of oaths was common, and the casuistry surrounding such oaths was intricate. There were what we would now term loopholes – ‘perfectly’ legal ways of doing wrong. The letter of the Law, rather than the spirit, had proliferated – the whole of the Sermon on the Mount concerns this subject – and thereby our knowledge of the will of God had been deliberately obscured [ … ]





























































