Arcana Coelestia # 3121
3121. 'And His truth towards my master' means an influx of charity from that inflowing love. This is clear from the meaning of 'truth' as charity. In the proper sense 'truth' means the same as faith, and in the Hebrew language faith is expressed by such a term, so that what is called truth in the Old Testament Word is regularly called faith in the New Testament Word. This is also why, in what has gone before, truth has often been called the truth of faith, and good the good of love. But in the internal sense faith is nothing else than charity - see what has often been stated and shown already, such as the following:
No faith exists except through love, 30-38.
Faith does not exist except where charity does so, 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2261.
Faith is faith grounded in charity, 1608, 2049, 2116, 2343, 2349, 2417.
Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2190, 2228, 2442.
From these paragraphs it is evident that in the internal sense truth or faith is the same as charity. Indeed all faith springs from charity, and faith that does not spring from it is not faith. Or what amounts to the same, all truth in the internal sense is good, since all truth is grounded in good, and truth that is not grounded in it is not truth. For truth is nothing else than the form that good takes, 3049; it is born from, and receives its life from nothing other than good.
Psalms 90
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Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
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Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
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You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
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For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
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You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
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In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
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For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
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You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
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For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
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So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
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Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
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Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
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Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
