Charity (Coulson) n. 73

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73. 1. Every individual man is the neighbour according to the quality of his good.

Since, in a spiritual idea, good is the neighbour, and a man is the subject of good, and also the object of him who does good, it follows that in a natural idea a man is the neighbour.

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