Bible: New Testament Jesus

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    Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:13.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.

    And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 20:12.

    Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)