Matthew 22:37

Matthew 22:37. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, etc. Quoted from the Septuagint version of Deuteronomy 6:5.

With all thy heart, literally, ‘in all thy heart.' The whole is a demand for supreme affection. If we distinguish between the phrases, the first refers to ‘the whole energy of the reason and the intellect;' soul, ‘the whole energy of sentiment and passion;' mind, ‘the whole energy of thought and will in its manifestation.' To this Mark adds: ‘with all thy strength,' which refers more especially to the manifestations of thought and will.