Saying 25

English

Jesus said, ‘Love your brother like your soul. Watch over him like the pupil of your eye.’

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Interpretation

The idiom ‘your soul’ means ‘your self’.

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Parallels

Leviticus

19.18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yhwh.

Didache

1.2 Now, this is the way of life: First, you must love God who made you. And second, your neighbor as yourself, and whatever you want people to refrain from doing to you, you must not do to them.

Mark

12.31 ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’