{"id":719,"date":"2008-06-18T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/18\/love-and-do-what-thou-wilt\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:54:00","slug":"love-and-do-what-thou-wilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/18\/love-and-do-what-thou-wilt\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Love, and do what thou wilt&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading an old book by E.L. Allen, entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plato-Nietzsche-E-L-Allen\/dp\/0449300404\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1213804690&#038;sr=8-1\">From Plato to Nietzsche: Ideas That Shape Our Lives<\/a><\/em>; it is a thin book, but a good overview of philosophy and theology for the last two thousand years.  One phrase from Augustine (from <em>De Genesi ad Litteram<\/em>) I liked was \u201cOnce for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good\u201d, since it reflects (unsurprisingly) what Paul says in Romans 13:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ufeffLet no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.\ufeff\ufeff The commandments, \u201cYou shall not commit adultery,\u201d \u201cYou shall not murder,\u201d \u201cYou shall not steal,\u201d \u201cYou shall not covet, \u201d\ufeff\ufeffand whatever other command there may be, are summed up\ufeff\ufeffc\ufeff in this one command: \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself. \u201d\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffLove does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.\ufeff\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It serves as an antidote to legalism (that is, worldliness; see Col. 2) and the endless concern with rules.  If we love our neighbor as ourselves, then we can do as we please, since what we please will not harm our neighbor.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading an old book by E.L. Allen, entitled From Plato to Nietzsche: Ideas That Shape Our Lives; it is a thin book, but a good overview of philosophy and theology for the last two thousand years. One phrase &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/18\/love-and-do-what-thou-wilt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}