1. THE PRECEPTS OF THE DECALOGUE ¹

After the The Last Judgment had been completed, a New Church meant by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation was promised.

1. Explain the whole of chapter 21. Then chapter 22:1-5.

2. Elsewhere in the Word, Jerusalem means the Church, as in the following places: ²

Isaiah 1:1, 4:4, 9:1.

2:2, 3:8, 5:3, 7:1, 10:10-12, 32, 22:10, 31:5, 33:20, 36:2, 7, 20, 37:10, 32, 40:2, 41:27, 44:26, 28, 52:1-2, 9, 62:1, 7, 64:10, 65:18, 66:10, 20.

27:13, 30:19.

2:3, 3:1.

4:3, 24:23, 28:14, 31:9, 65:19, 66:13.

5:3, 7:14, 22:21.

11:9, 51:17, 52:1-2, 62:6.

Daughter of Jerusalem: Lamentations 2:13, 15, Micah 4:8, Zephaniah 3:14, Zechariah 9:9.

Jeremiah 1:3, 15, 2:2, 3:17, 4:3, 10-11, 5:1, 6:1, 7:17, 34, 8:5, 9:11, 11:6, 13, 13:9, 14:2, 16, 17:19, 21, 26, 27, 19:7, 13, 22:19, 23:14, 15, 25:18, 26:18, 27:3, 20, 21, 31:2, 32:2, 44, 33:10, 13, 16, 34:19, 35:11, 36:9, 37:5, 12, 38:28, 39:8, 40:1, 44:2, 6, 9, 13, 17, 21, 51:50, 52:12, 13, 14.

4:16, 6:6, 34:1, 7, 19, 3:4.

27:18, 29:25, 34:8, 35:11.

24:1, 27:20, 29:1, 2, 4, 20.

4:5, 15:4, 34:6, 3:1, 3.

4:4, 8:1, 11:2, 9, 12-13, 13:13, 17:20, 25, 18:11, 19:3, 25:2, 32:32, 35:13, 17, 42:18.

4:14, 6:8, 13:27, 15:5, 52:29.

Lamentations 1:7, 8, 17, 2:10, 4:12.

Ezekiel 4:1, 7, 5:5, 8:3, 9:4, 8, 13:16, 14:22, 16:2-3, 17:12, 21:2, 20, 22, 22:19, 23:4, 33:21, 36:38.

24:2, 26:2.

4:16, 12:10.

11:15, 12:19, 15:6.

Daniel 1:1, 6:10, 9:2, 12, 16, 25.

5:2, 3, 9:7.Joel 3:1, 6, 16-17, 20.

Amos 2:5.

Obadiah 1:11, 20.

Micah 1:1, 5, 9, 12, 3:10, 12, 4:2.

Zechariah 1:12, 14, 16-17, 19, 2:2, 4, 12, 3:2, 7:7, 8:3-4, 8, 15, 12:2-3, 6, 14:4, 10-11, 17.

12:2, 9, 14:2, 12, 16.

14:8, 14, 9:10.

8:20, 12:6, 11, 14:21, 12:5, 7-8, 10, 13:1.

Malachi 3:4, 2:11.

Zephaniah 1:4, 12, 3:16.

Psalms 51:18, 79:1, 3, 122:3, 6, 125:2, 128:5, 137:6, 7, 147:12.

68:29, 135:21.

102:21, 116:19, 122:2, 137:5, 147:12.

3. Something about those matters which come before this in the Revelation - such as the dragon, the scarlet beast, and the destruction of them.

4. About the The Last Judgment. Already described, it is to be described further.

5. Why a New Church is established when the The Last Judgment has been completed.

6. Not before, to prevent holy things from being profaned.

7. It was promised at that time that the spiritual sense of the Word was to be disclosed; the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord alone is the Word.

8. About His Coming at that time.

9. Therefore heaven has been opened to me.

II. It is now the end of the Church, and at the present time there are few that have any religion.

1. That the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord is the only God Who rules heaven and earth, and therefore that God is One as to His person and essence, in Whom is the Trinity, is unknown; yet all religion is based upon knowledge of God, and upon the adoration and worship of Him.

2. That faith is nothing else but truth is unknown, nor is it known whether that which men call faith is the truth or not; take certain things from the small work ³ concerning the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord.

Say what the faith of the present day is... then the degrees of justification; whether they are truths can be determined from what follows.

If this is indeed faith, there is no need of truths, nor of charity, nor even of any knowledge of them.

What charity is, is unknown.

Neither are evil and good known.

III. After death every man is still a man; he is then what his love is; and his love is that life which awaits everyone for ever.

1. Everybody is examined after death to reveal the nature of his love.

2. Every spirit is what his affection is.

3. The whole of heaven is divided into societies according to the variety in affections found there, and the whole of hell according to the variety in lusts.

4. The nature of man's affection and that of his thought are alike.

IV. The devil dwells with man in the evil, and the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord in the good, things of his life.

V. Shunning evils is doing good, and this is religion itself.

1. Some things about combats and temptations.

2. Shunning evils involves nothing less than putting the devil to flight; in as much as a man does this, he is conjoined to the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord and heaven is opened, and that for so long as he is not in hell.

VI. The man who is shunning evils because they are sins has faith; and the limits he reaches in shunning evils determines the amount of faith he has.

Some truths have to do with faith, others with life; in so far as the truths that have to do with life become part of one's life, truths that have to do with faith become part of one's faith, no more and no less.

Enumerate the truths that have to do with faith, which are otherwise matters of knowledge and are not faith.

About the Anglican Exhortation ⁴ before the Holy Supper, and also that of the Swedes: then from 'Impediments or Stumbling blocks of the Impenitent'. ⁵

Therefore there are two tables, and they are called a Covenant; in so far as one is done by man the second is laid open.

VII. The Ten Commandments of the Decalogue sum up all things of religion.

1. Further matters about the holiness of the Decalogue.

RECAPITULATION

A recapitulation on the seven articles; nobody can deny that they are religion itself.

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251. I will come in to him, signifies conjunction. This is evident from the signification of "coming in," as being, in reference to the Lord, to be conjoined with Him (See Arcana Coelestia 3914, 3918, 6782, 6783). The Lord is conjoined with those who receive Him in heart and life, because the Lord enters or flows in into life; He enters or flows in only with those who are in a life of spiritual love, or in a life of charity; for charity is spiritual love. When that love makes a man's life, the Lord enters or flows in through it into the truths of faith, and causes man to see, or to know them; from this man has the spiritual affection of truth. It is a great mistake to suppose that the Lord enters or flows in into faith alone or into faith separate from charity with man; in such a faith there is no life, for it is like the breathing of the lungs without the inflow from the heart, which breathing would be only a lifeless movement, for the breathing of the lungs is made alive by the inflow from the heart, as is well known.

This makes clear by what way the Divine proceeding from the Lord is admitted, namely, by the way of the heart, that is, of the love; whether you say the heart or the love, it is the same as the life of the spirit therefrom. Love makes man's life, as anyone may know and see if he is only willing to give thought to it; for what is a man without love? Is he not a stock? Therefore, as the love is so is the man. Love is willing and doing, for what man loves he wills and does. An idea of the good of charity and of the truth of faith may be formed from the sun's light and heat. When the light that proceeds from the sun is conjoined with heat, as in spring and summer time, then all things of the earth bud and blossom; but when there is no heat in the light, as in winter time, then all things of the earth become torpid and die. Spiritual light also is the truth of faith, and spiritual heat is the good of charity. From this an idea may be formed of the man of the church; that when faith with him is conjoined to charity he is like a garden and a paradise; but when faith in him is not conjoined to charity he is like a desert, or a land covered with snow.