NEIGHBOUR, 1. One who dwells or is seated near to another (2 Kings iv. 3.) 2. Every man to whom we have an opportunity of doing good (Matt. xxii. 39.) 3. A fellow labourer of one and the same people (Acts vii. 27.) 4. A friend (Job xvi. 21.) At the time of our Saviour, the Pharisees had restrained the word neighbour to signify those of their own nation only, or their own friends; being of opinion that to hate their enemy was not forbidden by their law. But our Saviour informed them, that the whole world were their neighbours; that they ought not to do to another what they would not have done to themselves; and that this charity ought to be extended even to their enemies, (Matt. v. 43. Luke x. 29. &c.)