Love of Enemies in the Context of Antiquity
Do we find the principle of ‘loving one's enemies’ or precursors thereof in pre-Christian antiquity? In the Greco-Roman tradition we find as a common maxim ‘helping friends and harming enemies’ combined with the talio and the Golden Rule. Only Socrates and some Roman stoics recommend never to t...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2001
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New Testament studies
Year: 2001, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 411-427 |
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