AR 91, et al. - Smyrna

AR 91
And unto the angel of the church of Smyrna write,
signifies to those and concerning those,
who are in goods as to life,
but in falsities as to doctrine.

AR 95
. . . "affliction" is predicated of falsities;
and "poverty" of the lack of goods;
spiritual poverty is nothing else.

AR 97
All the good of worship is formed by truths,
and all truth is formed from good,
therefore good without truth is not good,
neither is truth, without good, truth;
they appear indeed in external form to be so,
but still they are not.

. . . it is the love of the wise which does good,
but the love of the foolish does what is like good in externals,
but totally unlike it in internals;
therefore the good of the wise is like pure gold,
but the good of the foolish is like gold covering over dung.

AR 102
. . . falsities and evils with a person are not abolished,
but removed,
and when they are removed
they appear as if they were abolished,
because when evils and falsities are removed,
a person is kept in goods and truths by the Lord.