Thou shalt love thy neighbour. — The words were found, strangely enough, in the book which is, for the most part, pre-eminently ceremonial (Leviticus 19:18), and it is to the credit of the Pharisees, as ethical teachers, that they, too, had drawn the law, as our Lord now drew it, from its comparative obscurity, and gave it a place of dignity second only to that of the first and great commandment.
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Matthew 22:39
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.