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To give the stranger food and raiment, pouring oil and wine into his wounds

We have seen* how the stranger in the Word, in its most positive sense -- there are reversed ones as usual with the Word's images -- is one who is willing to be instructed in the doctrines of charity and faith; and how the Word expresses this first from one camera angle then from another according to His custom:  Deuteronomy 10:16-18 - King James Version (KJV) <16> Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. <17> For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: <18> He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Luke 10:33-34 - King James Version (KJV) <33> But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, <34> And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own bea