4 MARCH 1871, Page 13

THE MORAL CONSISTENCY OF SCRIPTURE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPZOTATOR.1 Sin,—Your correspondent signing "Nil Desperandum " says that "to deny, on the authority of the Gospel of St. Matthew, that the Mosaic command to hate one's enemy is of divine institu- tion is certainly to explain one portion of Scripture as repugnant to another." Many Mosaic commands make no profession to be of divine institution ; but will he kindly inform me where the above is set forth as either Divine or Mosaic ? I am unable by my concordances to find either, and his would greatly assist

A HEATHEN.

[We suppose our correspondent "Nil Desperandum " was by a slip identifying the command our Lord attributes to "them of old time," "Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy," to the Mosaic legislation.—En. Spectator.]