AC 10182 - all the power of truth is from the good of love

AC 10182 [4 & 6]
The power of Divine truth is meant also by "the Word" in John:

All things were made by the Word,
and without Him was not anything made that was made.
(John 1:3)

. . . "the Word" denotes the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Divine good;
wherefore also the Lord when in the world first made Himself Divine truth,
which is also meant by "the Word was made flesh" (verse 14).
The reason why the Lord then made Himself Divine truth,
was in order that He might fight against all the hells and subjugate them,
and thus reduce into order all things there,
and at the same time all things in the heavens.

That truths from good have such power
cannot be apprehended by those
who have the idea that truth and its faith are mere thought;
when yet a person's thought from his will
produces all the strength of his body,
and if it were inspired by the Lord through His Divine truth,
a person would have the strength of Samson.
But it is the Lord's good pleasure that in respect to the things of his spirit,
and that conduce to eternal salvation,
a person should have strength through faith from love.