Luke X. 27.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 273 of Gcxi; we are made straight by loving what is upright, that we may rightly cling to the upright One.
Let us strive, then, with the greatest possible effort to bring to him those whom we love as ourselves, if we know that we love ourselves by loving Him. For Christ, who is Truth, says that on these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets: that we love God with our whole heart and our whole soul and our whole mind, and that we love our neighbor as ourselves. ^^ Obviously, in this passage the neighbor is not to be rated by blood relationship but by the fact that he is a fellow being endowed with reason, which makes all men kin. For if money is a reason which makes men partners, much more is their common nature a reason to draw them together, not for business purposes but because of their birth. Hence, that writer of comedy whose charming genius is not devoid of the splendor of truth composed this speech where one old man speaks to another:
Have you so much time to spare from your own affairs That you can meddle in other people's business which is none of yours?
and he gives this answer to the other old man:
I am a man: I hold that no human interest is foreign to me.^*
They say that at that sentence, the whole theatre, though filled with foolish and ignorant people,
13. Cf. Matt xxii. 37, 39, 40; Mark xii. 30-31; Luke X. 27. 14. Terence, Heautontimoreumenos 75-77.