THE NEIGHBOUR IS TO BE LOVED IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS SPIRITUAL GOOD, AND HIS MORAL, CIVIL, AND NATURAL GOOD THEREFROM; CONSEQUENTLY IT IS GOOD THAT, IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE, IS THE NEIGHBOUR TO BE LOVED.

(1) A man is not a man by reason of his face and body, but by reason of the good of his will.

(2) When the good of a man's will is loved, the man himself is being loved.

(3) A man is a man by reason of his spiritual good, and not by reason of his moral, civil, and natural good separate from spiritual good.

(4) Such as a man's spiritual good is, such is his moral, civil, and natural good; because these three goods derive their life solely from spiritual good.

(5) Consequently, it is good that, in a spiritual sense, is the neighbour to be loved.

OBS. - Spiritual good is the good of charity, thus, the Lord, heaven, and the Church with him; for such is the man in the goods derived from it.