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Isn't "Thou shalt not murder" sailing awfully close to a tautology, though?
by caf 10y ago
Isn't "Thou shalt not murder" sailing awfully close to a tautology, though?
- throwanem 10y agoNo, because like temporal law, the Mosaic code elsewhere defines what is and is not murder. As 'coldtea elsewhere points out, Christ explicitly deprecates most of that code in his teachings - but he cites this one verbatim, and to do so without intending to implicitly affirm at least the distinction between killing which is wrongful, i.e. murder, and killing which is not, seems an unlikely mistake for any rabbi to make.