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 | | He never tired of dwelling on the loving kindness and the tender providence of His Father, and He insisted equally on the duty of loving all men, summing up the whole of His ethical teaching in the observance of the law of love (Matt., v, 43; xxii, 40). |
 | | This universal charity He designed to be the mark of His true followers (John, xiii, 45), and in it, therefore, we must see the genuine Christian spirit, so distinct from everything that had hitherto been seen on earth that the precept which inspired it He called "new" (John, xiii, 34). |
 | | And those traditions were directly communicated by Christ Himself to His Apostle, as he tells us in many passages "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you" (I Cor., xi, 23), and again "For I delivered unto you first of all what I received" (I cor., xv, 3). |
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