87. Since good with every one is various, it follows, that the quality of good determines the degree, and the proportion in which any one is a neighbour. That this is so is plain from the Lord's parable concerning the man who fell among thieves, who, being half dead, was passed by both by a priest and also by a Levite; but whom a Samaritan, after he had bound up his wounds, and poured oil and wine into them, put upon his own beast and brought to an inn, and concerning whom he gave orders that care should be taken. This man, because he practised the good of charity, is called a neighbour (Luke x. 29-37). From this it may be known that he is a neighbour who is in good; the oil and wine also which the Samaritan poured into the wounds, signify good and its truth.