Matthew 5:43 quotes the ancient law as saying, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy," yet Leviticus 19:18 contains no command whatsoever to hate enemies.
The texts of the Bible—the New Testament in particular—have undergone alteration at various levels, with each level driven by its own specific rationale and justifications. Often, these changes were not born of malicious intent; rather, those who altered the texts sought to present them in a form they deemed superior to the version available to them. This process of alteration began with the very first hands to record the text—the authors of the Gospels themselves—and continued through the work of scribes, correctors, and even heretics who wished to anchor their own doctrines in scriptural texts. Subsequently, certain Church Fathers adjusted the text to align with what they considered to be a more accurate version. Translators, meanwhile, encountered passages containing prophecies or statements they found troubling, and consequently obscured them to conceal the original meanings they deemed undesirable. Finally, commentators used symbols and allegory to soften the impact of passages that proved difficult to interpret literally.
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