The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 108
108. Faith
NO one knows what faith is in its essence who does not know what caring is, because where there is no caring there is no faith. This is because caring is just as inseparable from faith as goodness is from truth. What we love or really care about 1 is what we regard as good, and what we believe is what we regard as true. We can therefore see that the oneness of caring and faith is like the oneness of what is good and what is true. The nature of that union was made clear in the earlier material on goodness and truth [§§11-27].
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. The Latin phrase here translated "What we . . . care about" is quod . . . charum habet, literally, "what one holds dear. " Swedenborg's use of charum-the alternative spelling of the adjective carum, "dear"-may be intended to connect it with the Latin word charitas, here translated "caring. " See note 19. [GFD]
