anger of the judgment:
but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother
shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his
brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever
shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of
fire.--Matt. 5:21, 22.

The Law of Moses forbade murder; a man-slayer was amenable in the ordinary
court. Was this an adequate expression of the sacredness of human life and
personality? It never even scratched a man or woman who assaulted the soul
of another with anger and curses. Jesus proposed that these sins be
restandardized. Plain anger ought to be valued about as murder used to be.
And if anybody went so far as to revile a brother and deny his moral or
intellectual worth, the Supreme Court and Gehenna would be about right for
him. The lawyers' gauge of culpability can not get down to the subtler
expressions of lovelessness which break the prime law of the Kingdom.

_By what methods is contempt expressed in our own social life?_

_How highly do we rate the moral value of self-respect?_

Fifth Day: The Sins of Sex

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust
after her hath committed adultery with her already in his
heart....

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give
her a writing of divorcement: but I say unto you, that every one
that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
maketh her an adulteress; and whosoever shall marry her when she
is put away committeth adultery.--Matt. 5:27, 28; 31, 32.

These two cases deal with sex. The old law forbade adultery, the
infringement of family life, and stopped there. Jesus goes back of the act
to the lustful imaginations and the wandering eye, which may lack
opportunity but which are the real spring of all uncleanness. He runs the
line of ethical obligation farther back.

The law of divorce (Deut. 24:1), especially as interpreted by the scribes,
was very comfortable--for the male. He could divorce his wife for almost
any cause. Her only protection was that a formal paper had to be given her
which enabled her to marry again. As a woman's economic and social
standing in that age depended almost wholly on her family relations, she
was at the mercy of the man. Jesus demanded more protection for her. To
him