5746. ‘Et dicas ad illos, Quapropter retribuitis malum pro bono?’: quod significet cur aversio, constat ex significatione ‘retribuere malum pro bono’ quod sit se avertere; malum enim non est nisi quam aversio a bono, nam qui in malo sunt, respuunt bonum, nempe bonum spirituale quod est charitatis et fidei; quod malum aversio sit, patet manifeste a malis in altera vita; apparent illi in luce caeli pedibus sursum et capite deorsum, n. 3641, ita prorsus inversi, consequenter aversi ¹ .

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A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They all do different things -- but if they're doing them with a shared underlying purpose, the company -- and the individuals in it -- will likely be successful. The Lord wants all human society to function in a similar way. We have different skills and individual loves, but if we all share a mutual love -- a love of serving others -- then society will function as one, will be a reflection of heaven and will be a good receptacle for the Lord's love. This can also happen within each of us, as we unify our talents and ideas around a central love. And in an abstract sense, it illustrates how a wide collection of varying ideas can be unified around a shared good intention. That is the kind of love pictured when “one” is used in the Bible, either as a specific number or in the sense of several people or objects “being one.” In more casual references -- when used to identify a specific person or object -- the meaning is relatively literal, and is connected to that person or object.