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20 Aug 2026

Setting Aside And Fulfilling

Qui ergo solverit unum de mandatis isitis minimis...

Postquam se dixit non velle solvere legem, sed omnia ese complenda, dat sententiam supera solutores et adimpletores. Solutores dicuntur, qui non volunt facere, quod moralia praecepta jubent, et qui figuras legis male interpretantur vel promissione, et negant in eis esse significatum, ut Judaei. Horum duae sunt differentiae. Alii solvunt, et alios solvere docent. Alii solvunt et non docent. Illi qui solvunt et docent, perjores sunt. Iterum adimpletores sunt diversi, quia alii faciunt, et non docent, qui sibi et non aliis proficiunt. Alii qui faciunt et docent, qui sibi et aliis proficiunt, et isti maximi sunt. Est quoddam tertium genus, qui nec adimpletores debent dici, qui docent et non faciunt, qui aliis et non sibi proficiunt, qui minimi sunt. Hic autem dat sententiam super prejores solutores, qui solvunt et docent, et super maximos adimpletores, qui faciunt et docent.

Anselmus Laudunensis, Enarrationes In Matthaeum, Caput V

Source: Migne PL 162.1293c-d
Therefore he who sets aside the least of these commandments.... 1

After He said He did not wish to set aside the law, but to fulfill everything, He gives judgement over those who set aside and those who fulfill. They are called those who set aside because they do not wish to do what the moral precepts command, and they understand the figures of the law badly, and the promises, and they deny there is meaning in them, as the Jews. Of these there are two sorts. One sets aside and teaches others to do so. The other sets aside and does not teach it. Those who set aside and teach are worse. Again there is a difference in those who fulfill, because some do it and do not teach it and they profit themselves and not others, and others do it and teach it and so profit themselves and others, and these are the greatest. There is also a certain sort of third type, who should not be called fulfillers, because they teach it and they do not do it, and so they profit others but not themselves, and they are the least. But here He gives judgement on the worst of those who set aside, who set aside and teach it, and on the greatest of the fulfillers, who do it and teach it.

Anselm of Laon, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 5

1 Mt 5.19

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