'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;Matthew 5:43 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy - Instead of πλησιον neighbor, the Codex Graevii, a MS. of the eleventh century, reads φιλον friend. Thou shalt love thy friend, and hate thine enemy. This was certainly the meaning which the Jews put on it: for neighbor, with them, implied those of the Jewish race, and all others were, considered by them as natural enemies. Besides, it is evident that πλησιον, among the Hellenistic Jews, meant friend merely: Christ uses it precisely in this sense in Luke 10:36, in answer to the question asked by a certain lawyer, Matthew 5:29. Who of the three was neighbor (πλησιον friend) to him who fell among the thieves? He who showed him mercy; i.e. he who acted the friendly part. In Hebrew, רע reâ, signifies friend, which word is translated πλησιον by the Lxx. in more than one hundred places. Among the Greeks it was a very comprehensive term, and signified every man, not even an enemy excepted, as Raphelius, on this verse, has shown from Polybius. The Jews thought themselves authorized to kill any Jew who apostatized; and, though they could not do injury to the Gentiles, in whose country they sojourned, yet they were bound to suffer them to perish, if they saw them in danger of death. Hear their own words: "A Jew sees a Gentile fall into the sea, let him by no means lift him out; for it is written, Thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbor: - but this is not thy neighbor." Maimon. This shows that by neighbor they understood a Jew; one who was of the same blood and religion with themselves.
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Matthew 19:19 Honor your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:39,40 And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself...
Leviticus 19:18 You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself...
Mark 12:31-34 And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is none other commandment greater than these...
Luke 10:27-29 And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength...
Romans 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law...
Galatians 5:13,14 For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another...
James 2:8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:
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Exodus 17:14-16 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua...
Deuteronomy 23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever.
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;
Psalm 41:10 But you, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalm 139:21,22 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you...
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