NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 7:42

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When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

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Verse 42. Which will love him most? as we read in the Protestant version, and in the Greek, αγαπησει. But Christ, seeming to require love as a previous disposition to the remission of sins, as appears from verse 47 infra, the Catholic Church has adopted the version of Saint Augustine, hom. xxiii. in the present tense: quis ergo plus eum diligit? Jans. Comment. in Evang.

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