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28 abless those who curse you, and bpray for those who spitefully use you.  
29 aTo him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. bAnd from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.  
30 aGive to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back.  
31 aAnd just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.  
32 a“But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.  
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
34 aAnd if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.  
35 But alove your enemies, bdo good, and clend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and dyou will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.  
36 aTherefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.  

Do Not Judge

37 a“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. bForgive, and you will be forgiven.  
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Adam Clarke
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Luke 6:30

Ask them not again - Or, Do not beg them off. This probably refers to the way in which the tax-gatherers and Roman soldiers used to spoil the people. "When such harpies as these come upon your goods, suffer the injury quietly, leaving yourselves in the hand of God, rather than attempt even to beg off what belongs to you, lest on their part they be provoked to seize or spoil more, and lest you be irritated to sue them at law, which is totally opposite to the spirit and letter of the Gospel; or to speak bad words, or indulge wrong tempers, which would wound the spirit of love and mercy." Of such as these, and of all merciless creditors, who even sell the tools and bed of a poor man, it may be very truly said: -

Tristius haud illis monstrum, nec saevior ulla

Pestis et ira deum Stygiis sese extulit undis: -

Diripiunt dapes, contactaque omnia faedant Immundo : -

Virg. Aen. iii. ver. 214

"Monsters more fierce offended heaven ne' er sent

From hell' s abyss, for human punishment: -

They snatch the meat, defiling all they find."

Dryden

However, it is probable that what is here spoken relates to requiring a thing speedily that had been lent, while the reason for borrowing it still continues. In Ecclus. 20:15, it is a part of the character of a very bad man, that to-day he lendeth, and tomorrow will he ask it again. From Luke 6:27 to Luke 6:30 our blessed Lord gives us directions how to treat our enemies.

1.Wish them well.

2.Do them good.

3.Speak as well of them as possible.

4.Be an instrument of procuring them good from others; use your influence in their behalf.

5.Suffer patiently from them contempt and ill treatment.

6.Give up your goods rather than lose your meekness and charity towards them.

The retaliation of those who hearken not to their own passion, but to Christ, consists in doing more good than they receive evil. Ever since our blessed Savior suffered the Jews to take away his life, it is by his patience that we must regulate our own. Quesnel.




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