You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And hate thy enemy. The words of the law (Leviticus xix. 18.) are only these: thou shalt love thy friend as thyself; but by a false gloss and inference, these words, and hate thy enemy, were added by the Jewish doctors. (Witham)