Miłuj bliźniego jak siebie samego? Jaką miarą czy z jakiego powodu miłować bliźniego?

Abstract

The traditional understanding of the final syntagm kāmôkā in the sense of “as yourself” raises several problems of interpretation and does not necessarily allow to properly understand the commandment of loving our neighbor from Lev 19:17–18.33–34. Changing the interpretation of this syntagm from an adverbial (in relation to love) to an attributive one (in relation to your neighbor: he is like you) is well justified (A. Schüle) and significantly changes the way of understanding the commandment, because it allows us to look at the definition of our neighbor in a new way. In the New Testament the attempt to definite is abandoned in favor of indicating that one is not a neighbor but becomes one through the very meeting with another person.

Keywords

• love
• neighbor
• stranger
• enemy