Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 68

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68. That man is in the love of self who despises the neighbour in comparison with himself, and who considers him as an enemy unless he courts, reveres, and worships him. More yet in the love of self is he who, for such reasons, hates and persecutes the neighbour; and still more he who on that account burns with revenge against the neighbour, and covets his destruction. Such persons in the end delight in cruelty.


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