Note 36 — THE MORE THAN BROTHERHOOD OF A BOSOM FRIEND.
Reading edition
Deut. xiii. 6. Observe too the seeming climax,—ascending from “thy brother, the son of thy mother,” through the successive stages of “thy son, thy daughter,” and “the wife of thy bosom,” to “thy friend, which is as thine own soul.” As though
“The force of Nature could no further go.”