, & [ii] ; [xlvi]
Note; and [lxxiii] Note).
[Ap.XVI] (Ap16:1) Further, harmony is often the result of fear: but such
harmony is insecure. (2) Further, fear arises from infirmity
of spirit, and moreover belongs not to the exercise of reason:
the same is true of compassion, though this latter seems to
bear a certain resemblance to piety.
[Ap.XVII] (Ap17:1) Men are also gained over by liberality, especially such
as have not the means to buy what is necessary to sustain life.
(2) However, to give aid to every poor man is far beyond the
power and the advantage of any private person. (3) For the
riches of any private person are wholly inadequate to meet such
a call. (4) Again, an individual man's resources of character
are too limited for him to be able to make all men his friends.
(Ap17:5) Hence providing for the poor is a duty, which falls on
the State as a whole, and has regard only to the general
advantage.
[Ap.XVIII] (1) In accepting favours, and in returning gratitude our duty
must be wholly different (cf. [lxx] Note; [lxxi] Note).
[Ap.XIX] ((Ap19:1) Again, meretricious love, that is, the lust of generation
arising from bodily beauty, and generally every sort of love,
which owns anything save freedom of soul as its cause, readily
passes into hate; unless indeed, what is worse, it is a species
of madness; and then it promotes discord rather than harmony
(cf.
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