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Genesis 4:7

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7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

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Arcana Coelestia#369

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369. From this then it follows that the words “Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him, when they were in the field together” denote that while both faith and charity were from the doctrine of faith, yet faith separate from love could not but disregard and thereby extinguish charity; as is the case at the present day with those who maintain that faith alone saves, without a work of charity, for in this very supposition they extinguish charity, although they know and confess with their lips that faith is not saving unless there is love.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.