AE 834 - it is the man's quality that is to be loved

AE 834

. . . "neighbor" does not mean in the Word
a man merely in respect to person,
but in respect to the quality in him
that makes him to be such and such a man;
also that the quality of a man
is from his understanding and will,
and the quality of his understanding is from truths,
and the quality of his will is from goods,
and the quality of both the understanding and the will
is from his love.
From this it is known
that while every man is a neighbor,
every man is a neighbor from his quality,
and consequently that it is
the quality of a man from which he is a man
that is meant in the spiritual sense by "neighbor;"
for otherwise a bad man
would be as much a neighbor as a good man;
and yet to do good to the evil
is sometimes doing evil to the good.

. . . it is the man's quality that is to be loved.