MATTHEW 23:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.”
So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. The conclusion of the oath-casuistry argument: swearing by the altar invokes the altar and everything on it; the distinction between altar and gift is a fiction maintained to allow oath-evasion. The Sermon on the Mount's do not swear at all (Matthew 5:37) is the deeper resolution.
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