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  "title": "Turning the other cheek belongs to the command to love enemies",
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  "body_markdown": "Matthew 5:38–44 places the instruction after the rule of retaliation and before the command to love enemies. In the King James Version, Matthew specifies the right cheek; Luke 6:27–31 gives the parallel injunction without specifying right or left, alongside blessing persecutors, surrendering possessions and the Golden Rule. Chesterton's phrase is therefore a compressed allusion shared by both accounts, not an exact quotation that identifies one Gospel or translation.\n\nThe surrounding commands make the episode more than advice to avoid a fight: it concerns the response to injury and the treatment of enemies. Whether that response excludes every public or military use of force requires a further interpretation. The Gospel allusion itself does not settle the entire historical question Chesterton builds around it. [King James Version, Matthew 5:38–44; Luke 6:27–31](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10).",
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        "approach": "Theological contextualization",
        "question": "How can clerical abstention from combat coexist with a Christian justification of war?"
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        "approach": "Interlocutors and historical debates",
        "question": "What does the Quaker peace declaration actually claim, and how does it qualify the apparent contradiction?"
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