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The Neighbour in a Natural Sense

215.III IN A NATURAL SENSE, THE NEIGHBOUR WHO IS TO BE LOVED IS A FELLOW-CITIZEN, ALSO A SOCIETY, SMALL OR LARGE, ALSO ONE’S COUNTRY, ALSO THE HUMAN RACE.

201-1 See Matt. xi 27; xxviii. 18: John iii. 35; xvii. 2.

201-2 See John x. 30, 38; xiv. 9-11; xvii. 10.

201-3 See John xiv. 16-19; Matt. xxviii. 20.

201-4 The Author did not give any nos. in the MS., evidently intending to supply them later.

204-1 Gen. iii. 6.

207-1 In the margin: “N.B.”

208-1 In the MS. no passage is quoted here; but the intended passage is possibly Rom. xiii. 10: “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: love therefore is the fulfillment of the law” (R.V.).

209-1 Matt. xxiii. 26; Luke xi. 39

210-1 It is those who do good from obedience who take the lead in benefactions, such as giving to the poor, helping the needy, and endowing places of worship and hospitals; and they cannot but think that they merit reward in doing these things. Nor do they understand the Word as meaning anything else, where it is said that they shall have their reward. Nor do they know that the affection itself of good, with its delights, is the reward.

210-2 Cf. Rom. Xiii. 10.

210-3 Cf. Gal. v. 16, 17, and 24, 25.

210-4 Cf. 2 Cor. v. 17; Gal. vi. 15; Eph. iv. 23, 24.