The Commandment 'Love your Neighbour as Yourself' in the Epistle of James

Q4 Arts and Humanities

Caritas et Veritas Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.32725/cetv.2020.015

Július Pavelčík

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The Old Testament commandment ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ (Leviticus 19:18, further referred to as the commandment to love one’s neighbour as well) has an indisputably privileged position among other commandments not only in Jesus’ teachings but also in Paul’s ethical challenges, as well as in the Epistle of James. The commandment is found in the individual New Testament books in various contexts. These, in a specifi c way, emphasise its extraordinary importance in the life of early Christian communities. This study deals with the interpretation of the commandment to love one’s neighbour in the Epistle of James (2:8). Its specifi c concept is fundamentally conditioned by both contextual coherence and terminology and phrases which surround this interpretation and which are associated with various interpretive diffi culties of linguistic, semantics, and theological character. The commandment to love one’s neighbour as yourself is presented here as the norm that provides the Jewish-Christian addressees of the letter with guidance. It concerns the process of deciding on the practical implementation of the individual requirements of the Torah in the context of faith in the Lord

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《雅各书》中的诫命“爱人如己”

旧约的诫命“爱人如己”(利未记19:18，进一步被称为爱邻居的诫命)在其他诫命中具有无可争议的特权地位，不仅在耶稣的教导中，而且在保罗的道德挑战中，以及在雅各书中。这条诫命可以在不同的新约书卷中找到。这些，以一种特殊的方式，强调了它在早期基督教社区生活中的非凡重要性。本研究涉及雅各书(2:8)中爱邻舍的诫命的解释。它的具体概念从根本上受到上下文连贯和术语和短语的制约，这些术语和短语围绕着这种解释，并与语言、语义和神学特征的各种解释困难有关。爱邻如己的诫命，在这里是作为一种规范，为犹太教和基督教书信的收件人提供指导。它涉及在对主的信仰的背景下决定实际执行Torah的个别要求的过程

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