93. One's country is a neighbour more than a society, because it is like a parent; for in it a man is born, and by it he is fed, and protected from wrongs. Good ought to be done to one's country from love according to its needs, which chiefly concern its sustenance, and the civil and spiritual life of those who are in it. When he who loves his country, and who on account of willing well towards it, does good to it, comes in to the other life, he loves the Lord's kingdom; for there the Lord's kingdom is his country; and he who loves the Lord's kingdom, loves the Lord: for the Lord is the all in all of His kingdom.