>>16455907Spirit vs letter of the law.
The spirit is trying to discern the will of the thing in question, ascribe motivations and actions to a thing based on it's directive. Or at least that's how I understand it.
Where as letter is simply something like ''do literally as stated''.
Christ was saying do these things for the intentions, and the intentions were ''good'' and that you should look to the spirit of G-d rather than the literal word on the page.
For example, the covenant isn't just cut the tip of your dick skin off and go fuck 200 women and go to heaven cause G-d loves no dick skin.
The covenant is a testament to your will to put the ''most high'' of ideals first (G-d) before your own sexual pleasure. You agree to try to do what's right and seek to perfect yourself before you seek to gratify yourself sexually.
How this is important in this respect is understanding context of situation. Christ basically accused the messenger of the old testament of being a messenger of G-d who went rogue.
He is an adversary to be overcame, his criticism was that the words he says are true and were from G-d, but his example was hypocritical and wrong. He told others to follow the 10 commandments, but look at him, he talks a good game but breaks the law himself. He's like the servant in the tower who sees the harvest is comming and wants the crops for himself and when the lord sends servants he beats them, and when he sends his son, he kills him. The stone that the builders rejected was the cornerstone (the lower rung of society), it's an obstacle for them, pull it out and the tower falls, (you'll trip and be dashed to pieces) and if it falls on you, you'll be ground into dust (have the peasants go against you unified, you're gonna lose)
He basically explained the law properly and added the correct example of how to exemplify the law, rather than just say it and kill or accuse anyone who doesn't agree.
