neighbor?” The Lord adduced a parable, which begins, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem into Jericho,” and so on.7 And he teaches that the man going down was the neighbor of no one except of him who willed to keep the commandments and prepare himself to be a neighbor to every one who needs help. For, this is what is found after the parable, at its end: “Which of these three does it seem to you is the neighbor of the man who fell among robbers?” Neither the priest nor the Levite was his
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