The love-enemy commandment turns the neighbor into an enemy to be loved

Evidence

As Walter Bauer puts it: “In the concept ‘enemy’ there lies an obscurity from the beginning. One must love the enemy. Good. But when the enemy himself is at the same time the enemy of God, what then?” (Bauer, “Das Gebot der Feindesliebe und die alten Christen,” 48). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 889 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Paul holds the same people are simultaneously God’s enemies and his beloved; The Messiah who became the neighbor has also become the enemy; Freud dissolved the love-enemy commandment into the love-neighbor one (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Loving the enemy becomes impossible when that enemy is God’s enemy #complicates (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 889
• Neighborliness is a reciprocal relation that extends even to enemies #complicates (0.73)