Thou shalt love thy neighbour] Leviticus 19:18. and hate thine enemy] This the scribes collected (though wrongfully) out of the text, either because the Hebrew word signifies a friend, as well as a neighbour; and they thought, God, commanding to love friends, gave leave to hate enemies: or else, because they were commanded to destroy the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 7:2. and 25. 17, 19. and they taught, by proportion, that every Jew might deal so with his particular enemies.