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“Do not pay attention to the theory which advises you to love your neighbours and to hate your foe rather, do what I say
“Ye have heard that it hath been said Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 43.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."44.13
Then you will be a true child of your Father, i.e., God who lives in heaven and orders the Sun to focus his rays and Cloud to rain equally for both the man having good nature and also the man having bad nature. The love with common people is the love with God. The love is without any control and limitation.4 Actually love is Nonviolence and Non-violence is love, neither love can be imagined without love nor love can be imagined wothout Non-violence.
Brotherly love --- In the letter from St. Paul to Romio, the Brotherly love has been presented in the following way :
"Your love should be open hearted. You love virtues and hate vices. You love one another whole heartedly like real brother. You should treat one another as greater than ownself. As far as possible you should creat harmony among yourselves.”:15
Do not be grateful to anybody for any thing except Brotherly love. The person who loves other is known as the follower of all religious codes. 16
In the letter from St. Paul to Corinthians the Brotherly Love has been discovered by the name of Charity.
“Though I speak with tongues of men and of angles, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbals.
And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so tiat I remove mountains, and have not charity. I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and For Private & Personal Use Only
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