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But the spirit of the passages about the cities of refuge [Numbers 35:9-31; Joshua 20:1-9; and Deuteronomy 19:1-13] makes the prevention of harmdoing, the prevention of injustice, a requirement, a heavy obligation upon those who live as regular inhabitants of those cities. They must both refuse to do harm themselves and act to prevent others from doing harm, as if they were all being commanded to be the Good Samaritan of Luke 10:30-37, and as if this was what Jesus meant when he said, immediately before the Good Samaritan passage, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, 1979, 110. [more to follow]
Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, 1979, 110. [more to follow]
