The style in the Word is such
that there is something holy
in every sentence and in every word,
indeed in some places in the very letters.
Because of that
the Word conjoins a person with the Lord
and opens heaven.
There are two
emissions emanating from the Lord:
Divine love and Divine wisdom.
Or to say the same thing,
Divine goodness and Divine truth.
For Divine goodness is a property of His Divine love,
and Divine truth a property of His Divine wisdom.
In its essence the Word is both of these.
And because, as we said,
it conjoins a person with the Lord and opens heaven,
therefore the Word fills a person who reads it
prompted by the Lord, and not by himself simply.
It fills him with the goodness of love and truths of wisdom —
his will with the goodness of love,
and his intellect with truths of wisdom.
The person has life as a result through the Word.
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Divine love and Divine wisdom.
Or to say the same thing,
Divine goodness and Divine truth.
For Divine goodness is a property of His Divine love,
and Divine truth a property of His Divine wisdom.
In its essence the Word is both of these.
And because, as we said,
it conjoins a person with the Lord and opens heaven,
therefore the Word fills a person who reads it
prompted by the Lord, and not by himself simply.
It fills him with the goodness of love and truths of wisdom —
his will with the goodness of love,
and his intellect with truths of wisdom.
The person has life as a result through the Word.
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SS = The Doctrine of
the New Jerusalem
Regarding the Sacred Scripture
Regarding the Sacred Scripture
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