Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8
Leviticus 19 is sometimes called the Holiness Code within the Holiness Code. It applies the foundational command, be holy as I am holy, to the full range of daily life: fear parents, keep the Sabbath, avoid idols, leave gleanings at the field edge for the poor and the sojourner, do not steal or lie or swear falsely, do not oppress the hired worker, do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, judge with justice not partiality, do not spread slander, do not hate your brother in your heart.
In the middle of this list: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha. The command that Jesus will name as the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39), that Paul will say fulfills the whole law (Romans 13:9-10), that James will call the royal law (James 2:8). It is here in Leviticus, embedded in regulations about crop gleaning and wage payment and just weights. The command to love is not a NT innovation. It is the core of the Mosaic holiness ethic.
Thread 2 is the corporate dimension: the Holiness Code applies to the whole congregation, spoken to all the congregation of the children of Israel. The love of neighbor is not a private virtue but a community practice. Thread 4 is in every imperative of the chapter: the commands presuppose genuine capacity to obey. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not by human achievement alone but through the character formation that the whole Levitical system is designed to produce in a community that lives before the holy God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, the command that Jesus names the second great commandment and Paul calls the fulfillment of the whole law; embedded in the middle of the Holiness Code, before the NT ever quotes it.
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ (ve-ahavta le-re'akha kamokha): thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: ve-ahavta (you shall love, Qal perfect with waw consecutive, making it a command-form; the love is commanded, not merely commended; from ahav, the love-word); le-re'akha (your neighbor, your companion, the one near you, not only your covenant brother but the one in proximity; Leviticus 19:34 extends this to the stranger who sojourns among you: you shall love him as yourself); kamokha (as yourself, the standard is your own instinctive self-regard)
threads t2 · t4 · see Matthew 22:37-40 · Romans 13:9-10 · James 2:8