SS 3
. . . the style in the Word is the Divine style itself,
with which no other
style can be compared,
however sublime and admirable it seems.
For it
is as darkness compared to light.
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.
From the Lord proceed two things:
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.
In this way, a person has life by means of the Word.
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SS = Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture
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