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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:LOVE GOD AND NEIGHBOUR \nFrom a sermon by St Augustine of Hippo \n◊◊◊ \nMake it up with your adversary while he is with you on the road. This life \nis called a road\, along which everybody travels. And this adversary does not go \naway. But who is this adversary? This adversary is not the devil\, for Scripture \nwould never urge you to come to an agreement with the devil. So who is this \nadversary? It is the word of God. Why is it your adversary? Because it \ncommands things against the grain which you do not do. It tells you: Your God \nis one; worship one God. \nWhat you want is to put away the one God who is like the lawful husband \nof your soul and go fornicating\, and what is much more serious\, not openly \ndeserting and repudiating him as apostates do\, but remaining in your husband’s \nhouse and letting in adulterers. That is\, as if you were a Christian you do not \nleave the Church but you consult astrologers or sorcerers. \nYou are told\, Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain and you \nare told to observe the Sabbath in a spiritual way\, in hope of the future rest \nwhich the Lord has promised you. Whoever does whatever he can for the sake of \nthat future rest\, even though what he is doing seems toilsome\, nonetheless he \nalready has the Sabbath in hope\, though he does not yet have it in fact. But as for \nyou\, the reason you want to rest is in order to work\, whereas you ought to be \nworking in order to rest. \nYou are told\, Honour your father and your mother. You heap insults on \nyour parents\, which you certainly do not want to endure from your children. \nYou are told\, You shall not kill. But you want to kill your enemy; and the only \nreason you do not do it is that you are afraid of the human judge. Do you not \nrealize that God is the witness of your thoughts? The man you want dead is alive\, \nbut God holds you to be a murderer in your heart. \nYou were singing earlier on: O God\, I will sing you a new song\, on a harp \nof ten strings I will play to you. Now I am strumming these ten strings. You see\, \nthe decalogue of the Law has ten commandments. These ten commandments \nare arranged in such a way that three refer to God and seven refer to men. \nCommandments on three strings refer to God. But to the other commandment\, \nthat is\, the love of neighbour\, seven strings refer to how people should live \ntogether. This series of seven\, like seven strings\, begins with the honouring of \nparents: Honour your father and your mother… Let us join these to those three \nthat refer to love of God\, if we wish to sing the new song to the harp of the ten \nstrings. \nThe ten commandments are reducible to those two commandments\, that \nwe should love God and our neighbour\, and these two to the one we are looking \nfor: What you do not want done to you\, do not do to another. There the ten are \ncontained\, and there also are contained the two. Sing to the harp of ten strings\, \nsing a new song\, and come to an agreement with the word of God\, while it is with \nyou on the road.
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