Unconditional love: If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. Proverbs 25:21

The Book of Proverbs teaches with a wise phrase the importance of the unconditional love, a love that, as the apostle Paul taught in his writings (1 Corinthians 13:4-7), does not take into account the evil received and forgives everything.
For many this is nonsense and a lack of reason, but this spiritual teaching has a logic, the love of God, also called in greek language Agape, is the progressive, expansive, and edifying love, the love that makes men similar to God in essence. The unconditional love is not related to concupiscence or selfishness, but to the friendship in its true form, that is, of desiring the good of the friend for the good itself. And so, the Book of Proverbs then leaves as a background this teaching that would later be the basis of many teachings about the Kingdom of God, the dominion or empire of divine perfections, for the christian religion.
This is why the Book of Proverbs teaches this beautiful phrase to remember:
"If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the LORD will reward you" Proverbs 25:21-22.
This teaching is of utmost importance, because it is the opposite of the Law of Talion, a famous law of the ancient world coming from the code of Hammurabi, which is essentially a disguised form of revenge: "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise" Exodus 21:23-25.
Wisdom decisively teaches to avoid the path of these dangerous heresies. The wisdom of God calls his children to forgive, to do good ("Do to no one what you yourself hate" Tobit 4:15), because just as men forgive their fellow men, God forgives men for their mistakes.

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