He that shewed mercy on him Rather, the pity. By this poor periphrasis the lawyer avoids the shock to his own prejudices, which would have been involved in the hated word, -the Samaritan." "He will not name the Samaritan by name, the haughty hypocrite." Luther.

Go, and do thou likewise The general lesson is that of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:44.

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