Monday, December 03, 2018

AC 10331 - Wisdom, Intelligence, Knowledge, and Work

AC 10331 [2]

But it shall be briefly told what is meant by
"wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, and work."
Those who do not know
what the internal man is and what the external,
and also what the understanding is and what the will,
cannot apprehend in what manner
wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, and work
are distinct from one another,
for the reason that they cannot have a distinct idea
of the one and of the other.
Wherefore they who have not this knowledge
call him wise who is only intelligent;
indeed, who merely has knowledge.
But he is wise who does truths from love;
he is intelligent who does them from faith;
he has knowledge who does them from knowledge;
and "work" denotes that which is done from all these;
thus "work" denotes their effect
in which they conjoin themselves together. 



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