"Turn the other cheek" is New Testament, and Jesus was IMO very much trying to show the contradiction between the two
Not quite, at least as I understand it. Jesus was not trying to show the contradiction between the old and the new, but the inadquacy of the old as it was being applied- it was being used as a power play for the religious elite. After all, Jesus was responsible for both.
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.