Our concern is not at all with the outward commandments but rather with the
nature of life. That is God’s commandment. Thus we find in the Bible a
colossal freedom. There are none of the rules that were first formulated
about the time of Jesus. Jesus goes completely beyond them; not even the
law of the Sabbath is a rule for him. No sacrifice, no temple, no altar,
none of them are rules for Jesus. Nothing of the outward but that of the
spirit is God’s law...
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Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
