Overcome evil with LOVE PIU 'GRANDE (Mt 5.38 - 48)
Jesus continues his reflection on the "greater righteousness", in which does not abolish the Old Law but brings it to fulfillment. As he had done for the laws of the murder, on adultery, divorce, and on oath, so does the laws on revenge and love of neighbor: Jesus upsets everything and has a totally new and different. Even before the famous "law of retaliation" who also was a limit to revenge and put a brake on wild instinct of man, Jesus says that not only should not take revenge, nor to oppose evil, "But I tell you not to resist evil: but if you a slaps on the right cheek, you turn to him the other also. " The suggested approach is based on the model of the "suffering servant" of Isaiah that does not take away his face from shame and spitting (Isaiah 50,6). Jesus wants to defeat the idea of \u200b\u200bthe right to revenge, that is, that mentality rather rooted in the hearts of all of us: what you do to me I make to you. But this is a perverse logic that has never taken off or never take away the injustice. In fact, if a reward with the same currency with which you paid, do not remove the root of hatred. Jesus teaches us that revenge must not be taken to the satisfaction, nor even the slightest ever, if you do not want to fall into an endless spiral of hatred. The evil it can only be overcome with good, only with a superabundant love can conquer evil at its root. When you love and forgive, you can get to strong relations of friendship and solidarity. But woe if civil society is not satisfied to justice in defense of the weak and oppressed. But it is equally clear that anyone who puts into practice the "greater righteousness" recommended by Jesus, also in keeping with the normal justice simply is not limited to this one. This explains the commandment to love enemies: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that ye may be sons of your Father in heaven ...." For Jesus, the enemies do not exist, there is only the next to be accepted and loved. One thinks immediately of our country to foreigners, who often find hostility and rejection. If we are to love even our enemies, as it must be to love those who are forced by famine or by war to flee their homes, their families, their land. The love that Jesus asks us to touch the mystery of God's way of being and act of God "is his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. " In this way breaks the logic of corporate and concerned, in favor of a free and universal love that knows how to open up to strangers and different.
Jesus continues his reflection on the "greater righteousness", in which does not abolish the Old Law but brings it to fulfillment. As he had done for the laws of the murder, on adultery, divorce, and on oath, so does the laws on revenge and love of neighbor: Jesus upsets everything and has a totally new and different. Even before the famous "law of retaliation" who also was a limit to revenge and put a brake on wild instinct of man, Jesus says that not only should not take revenge, nor to oppose evil, "But I tell you not to resist evil: but if you a slaps on the right cheek, you turn to him the other also. " The suggested approach is based on the model of the "suffering servant" of Isaiah that does not take away his face from shame and spitting (Isaiah 50,6). Jesus wants to defeat the idea of \u200b\u200bthe right to revenge, that is, that mentality rather rooted in the hearts of all of us: what you do to me I make to you. But this is a perverse logic that has never taken off or never take away the injustice. In fact, if a reward with the same currency with which you paid, do not remove the root of hatred. Jesus teaches us that revenge must not be taken to the satisfaction, nor even the slightest ever, if you do not want to fall into an endless spiral of hatred. The evil it can only be overcome with good, only with a superabundant love can conquer evil at its root. When you love and forgive, you can get to strong relations of friendship and solidarity. But woe if civil society is not satisfied to justice in defense of the weak and oppressed. But it is equally clear that anyone who puts into practice the "greater righteousness" recommended by Jesus, also in keeping with the normal justice simply is not limited to this one. This explains the commandment to love enemies: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that ye may be sons of your Father in heaven ...." For Jesus, the enemies do not exist, there is only the next to be accepted and loved. One thinks immediately of our country to foreigners, who often find hostility and rejection. If we are to love even our enemies, as it must be to love those who are forced by famine or by war to flee their homes, their families, their land. The love that Jesus asks us to touch the mystery of God's way of being and act of God "is his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. " In this way breaks the logic of corporate and concerned, in favor of a free and universal love that knows how to open up to strangers and different.
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