3. The Lord, as to the Human, had life from Himself; from the Word.

2. Exscribantur omnes articuli in 4 tractatibus ordine.

21. It is clearly apparent from this that insofar as a person refrains from evils, so far he is in the Lord’s presence and in the Lord, and that insofar as he is in the Lord, so far he does good, not of himself, but from the Lord.

This results, then, in the general law, that insofar as someone refrains from evils, so far he does good.