Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5:17-19.
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Saint Matthew 5:17-19.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I
have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest
letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until
all things have taken place.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and
teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called
greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
«I have not come to abolish, but to fulfil.» The strength and power of
these words of the Son of God enclose a profound mystery.
For the Law prescribed works, but it directed all those works towards
faith in realities that would be made manifest in Christ: for the
Savior's teaching and Passion are the great and mysterious design of
the Father's will. Under the veil of its inspired words, the Law made
known the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, his incarnation, Passion and
resurrection. The prophets, no less than the apostles, teach us
repeatedly that the mystery of Christ had been prepared from all
eternity to be revealed in our own times...
Christ did not want us to think that his own works comprised anything
other than the Law's demands. That is why he himself insisted: «I have
not come to abolish, but to fulfil.» Heaven and earth... will
disappear but not the least commandment of the Law, for all the Law
and the prophets find their fulfilment in Christ. At the time of his
Passion... he declared: «It is finished» (Jn 19,30). And at that very
moment every word of the prophets was confirmed.
For this reason Christ declares that not even the least of God's
commandments can be cancelled without offending God... Nothing can be
more insignificant than the smallest. And humblest of all was the
Lord's Passion and death on the cross.
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