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And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us; and now, let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
6824. Such are the degrees of the neighbour, and it is in accordance with them that charity ought to increase in scale. But these degrees are those of consecutive order, in which a prior or higher degree always takes precedence over a posterior or lower one; and since the Lord occupies the highest degree and one should look to him in each specific degree as the End to which they all rise, He must be loved above all people and all things.
