NJHD 106 - More on Charity

NJHD 106

. . . the Divine of the Lord in the heavens
is love to Him, and charity towards the neighbor.

To know truths, to will truths,
and to be affected with them for the sake of truths,
that is, because they are truths,
is charity.

Charity consists in an internal affection of doing truth,
and not in an external affection
without an internal one.

Thus charity consists in performing uses
for the sake of uses.

Charity is the spiritual of a person.

To love the neighbor
is to do what is good, just, and right,
in every work and in every office.

Consequently charity towards the neighbor
extends itself to each and everything
which a person thinks, wills, and does.

To do what is good and true
is to love the neighbor.

Whose who do this love the Lord,
who in the highest sense is the neighbor.

The life of charity is a life according to
the commandments of the Lord;
and to live according to Divine truths
is to love the Lord.