Luke 10:27

Luke 10:27. This answer of the lawyer showed intelligence; he gives the sum of the whole law. But his knowledge of the-law exceeded his self-knowledge. In fact he shows, by adding from Leviticus 19:18: and thy neighbor as thyself, that he had some conception of our Lord's teachings. For in addition to Deuteronomy 6:5, which he quotes first, the Jews had written upon the phylacteries and recited night and morning, not this passage, but Deuteronomy 11:13, etc. Hence it is incorrect to suppose that our Lord pointed to the man's phylactery, when He said: ‘How readest thou.'