Even in this

(εν τω). Just the article with εν, "in the," but it points at the quotation from Leviticus 19:18. Jews (Luke 10:29) confined "neighbour" (πλησιον) to Jews. Paul uses here a striking paradox by urging obedience to the law against which he has been arguing, but this is the moral law as proof of the new love and life. See also Romans 13:8, precisely as Jesus did (Matthew 22:40).

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Old Testament