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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> >> I'm also pretty sure that bit doesn't actually show up in
> >> the old testament as well.
> >
> > Actually the "love your neighbor as yourself" commandment is not an
> > invention of the New Testament. It's based on Mosaic law (Leviticus 19:18).
> I stand corrected. That's kind of obvious in retrospect. D'oh!
> Of course, that means "your neighbor" and probably doesn't mean, say, the
> Egyptian Pharaohs, the Samaritans, etc.
It is probably true that "neighbor" in that Leviticus passage refers to
"your fellow Israelites" rather than "everybody".
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- Warp
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