for sinners also love those that love them Where St Matthew (Matthew 5:46-47), writing for Jews, uses the term "tax-gatherers" or -Gentile persons" (ethnikoi), St Luke naturally substitutes the nearest equivalents of those words in this connexion, because he is writing for Gentiles. Our Lord meant that our standard must rise above the ordinary dead level of law, habit, custom, which prevail in the world.

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