xviii.; _Dial.

adv.
Pelag._, iii.

2), are imbued with the same spirit.] Upon alms, pity, good works, kindness, peacefulness, and complete disinterestedness of heart, he had little to add to the doctrine of the synagogue.[1] But he placed upon them an emphasis full of unction, which made the old maxims appear new.

Morality is not composed of more or less well-expressed principles.

The poetry which makes the precept loved, is more than the precept itself, taken as an abstract truth.
Now it cannot be denied that these maxims borrowed by Jesus from his predecessors, produce quite a different effect in the Gospel to that in the ancient Law, in the _Pirke Aboth_, or in the Talmud.