“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” Rom 13:10
That is, Love would seek to do your neighbor good; of course it would prevent
all dishonesty and crime toward others. It would prompt justice, truth, and
benevolence. If this law were engraved on every man’s heart, and practiced in his life, what a change
would it immediately produce in society! If all people would at once abandon
what is suited to work ill to others, what an influence would it have on the
business and commercial affairs of people. How many plans of fraud and
dishonesty would it at once arrest. How many schemes would it crush. It would
silence the voice of the slanderer; it would stay the plans of the seducer and
the adulterer; it would put an end to cheating, and fraud, and all schemes of
dishonest gain. “Therefore”
… because love does no harm to another, it is “therefore” the fulfilling of the law, meaning that all the law
requires is “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Gal 5:14). By love is
the completion “fulfilling” requirements of the law. Regarding our duty to our neighbor, it requires
doing justice toward him, observe truth; and in truly love others all the
demands of the law would be satisfied.
The law of love is not
predicated on worthiness, but rather willingness!
HSAY… Todd
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