How to Understand Christ’s Teaching by Count Leo Tolstoi

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 17.

How to Understand Christ’s Teaching

By Count Leo Tolstoi

To UNDERSTAND Christ’s real teaching the chief thing is, not to interpret the Gospels, but to understand them as they are written. And therefore to the question how Christ’s teaching should be understood, I reply: If you wish to understand it, read the Gospels. Read them, putting aside all foregone conclusions; read with the sole desire to understand what is there said.—Count Leo Tolstoi.