A Short Treatise on the Love of God

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1 Chapter John 1: 3, 4; 10: 11.spoken Words; but the Living, Ever-speaking Word / which was eternally in and among him / he does not know / but lets it go The author distinguishes between the "spoken words" of the Bible and the "Living Word" (Logos/Christ) which he believes dwells within the individual but is often ignored..

Luke 10: 25.

19. All Law-scholars and Scribes do nothing else by their own rising up and running, than to tempt Jesus their own Savior Saligmaker: literally "one who makes blessed"; the traditional Dutch term for Savior; that then clearly shows: that they do not yet know this God / whom they claim to know: nor their Savior the Son of God: and also they do not know those / to whom the Son has revealed it: nor yet who their Neighbors are: as is clearly evident from this Questioner. Even today they do nothing else / than to trap Jesus, their own Salvation, within themselves; and in other People: because / though they well know the First and Greatest Commandment / they do not do it / nor wish to touch it with their fingers.

Luke 10: 28.

Matthew 22: 13.

Matthew 22: 36.

20. See, this Law-scholar and Scribe calls Jesus by the name of Master, he does not say / My Master, for he could not have said that with truth: but Master, for he was Wise and Intelligent enough: he could learn nothing from him / he knew everything much better than Jesus: he only wanted to put Jesus to shame before all the people / as if he were no Knower / much less a Doer of the Law; how then could he still be God’s Son? Now he wanted to show his great Wisdom before all these Men: see here then the Puffed-upness Opgeblasentheid: a state of being swollen with pride or vanity; intellectual arrogance of the Law-scholars!