[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. xxiii. 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 restrain- ed the word neighbour to signify those of their own na- tion 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.).