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'moedertaal en moederzielalleen in het vaderland van duizend culturen'


And not only did Yeshu strike at patriotism
and the bonds of family loyalty in the name of G*D's universal fatherhood
and brotherhood of ALL mankind,
but it is clear that his teaching condemned all the gradations
of the economic system,
all private wealth,
and personal advantages ...

ALL men belonged to HIS kingdom;
ALL their possessions belonged to the kingdom;
the righteous life for ALL men,
the ONLY righteous life,
was the service of G*D's will
with all that we had,
with all that we were ...

Again and again he denounced private riches and the reservation of any
private life .............

"And when he was gone forth into the way,
there came one running,
and asked him, Good Master,
what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Yeshu said to him, Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but
one, that is G*D.

Thou knowest the commandments,
Do not commit adultery, Do not kill,
Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I
observed from my youth.

THEN Yeshu beholding him loved him, and said unto him,
ONE thing thou lackest; go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast,
and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven:
and come, take up the yoke, and follow me.

And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved:
for he had great possessions.

"And Yeshu looked round about, and saith unto his disciples,
How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of G*D!
IT is easier for a camel to go thru the Eye of the Needle, than for
a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of G*D."

MOREOVER,
in his tremendous prophecy of this kingdom which was to make all men one together with G*D, Yeshu had small patience for the bargaining righteousness of formal religion.
Another large part of his recorded utterances is aimed against
the meticulous observance of the rules of the pious career.

"THEN the Pharisees and scribes asked him,
Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders,
but eat bread with unwashen hands?

He answered and said unto them,
WELL

hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,

"This people honoureth me with their lips,
"But their heart is far from me.

"Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
"Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

"For laying aside the commandment of G*D, ye hold the tradition of men,
as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of G*D, that ye may keep your own tradition."

IT was not merely a moral and a social revolution that Yeshu proclaimed;
it is clear from a score of indications that his teaching had a political bent
of the plainest sort.

IT is true that he said his kingdom was not of this world,
that is was in the hearts of men and not upon a throne;
but it is equally clear that wherever and in what measure his kingdom was set up in the hearts of men,
the outer world would be in that measure revolutionised and
made NEW.

WHATEVER ELSE the deafness and blindness of his hearers may have missed in his utterances,
it is quite plain they did not miss his resolve to revolutionise the world?
The whole tenor of the opposition to him and the circumstances of his trial and execution show very clearly that to his contemporaries he seemed to propose plainly, and DID propose plainly, to change and fuse and enlarge
ALL human life.

IN VIEW of what he plainly said, is IT any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his
teaching?
HE was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service
into the light of a universal religious life ........

HE was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto.

In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property,
no privilege, no pride and precendence;
no motive indeed and no reward but love ...

IS it any wonder that the priests realised that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or priestcraft should perish?

Is it ANY WONDER that the Roman soldiers confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar or Herod of him?

FOR to take him seriously
was to enter upon a strange and alarming life.
to abandon habits,
to control instincts and impulses,
to essay an incredible
happiness ...

liefdesverdrietverliefd Laxeer- & plasmiddelen: gevaarlijk! Re: 1-4-'04
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