The judgment is in ourselves. Every act fulfills itself. Every day is a day of judgment. Man is not punished for his sins, but by them. And the punishment is the hell fire of inner conflict that leads to physical stress and pain and disease, and to the human problems of lack and failure. Jesus is simply pointing to the fact that we all do a lot of killing that does not come under the restraint of the commandment as it has been traditionally accepted. Every destructive thought is a killing thought, and “there is the devil to pay.” When we permit ourselves to go on emotional binges of anger,
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