Monday, April 11, 2022
Love Your Enemies
Counsels of Wisdom, lines 42-43, in Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 3rd ed. (Bethesda: CDL Press, 2005), p. 413:
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Do no evil to the man who disputes with you,Cf. Matthew 5:44 (King James Version, with Greek substantially from the Society of Biblical Literature edition):
Requite with good the one who does evil to you.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.The parallel is noted in Hans Dieter Betz, The Sermon on the Mount (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995), p. 309.
ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς.
εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς καταρωμένους ὑμᾶς καλῶς ποιεῖτε τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς post ὑμῶν add. RP
