For this,
You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, namely,
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
All Commentaries on Romans 13:9 Go To Romans 13
Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
All the precepts which afterwards sprouted forth when given through Moses; that is, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart and out of thy whole soul; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;.
Very properly, then, did he sum up the entire teaching of the Creator in this precept of His: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.".
Are we to paint ourselves out that our neighbours may perish? Where, then, is (the command), "Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself? "