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578 Jesus, Israel's Messiah and therefore the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, was to fulfil the Law by keeping it in its all embracing detail - according to his own words, down to "the least of these commandments". ³³⁰ He is in fact the only one who could keep it perfectly. ³³¹ On their own admission the Jews were never able to observe the Law in its entirety without violating the least of its precepts. ³³² This is why every year on the Day of Atonement the children of Israel ask God's forgiveness for their transgressions of the Law. The Law indeed makes up one inseparable whole, and St. James recalls, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." ³³³

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PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

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CHAPTER TWO: I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD

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ARTICLE 4: "JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED"

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330 Mt 5:19.

331 Cf. Jn 8:46.

332 Cf. Jn 7:19; Acts 13:38-41; 15:10.

333 Jas 2:10; cf. Gal 3:10; 5:3.

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