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Ezekiel 11:23

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23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city.

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Ezekiel 37:27

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27 And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #2589

Studere hoc loco

  
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2589. THE STATE AND CONDITION IN THE NEXT LIFE OF NATIONS AND PEOPLES BORN OUTSIDE THE CHURCH

It is commonly supposed that those born outside the Church, who are called heathens and gentiles, cannot be saved for the reason that they do not possess the Word and so do not know the Lord, without whom there is no salvation. But that gentiles too are saved may be known from the single consideration that the Lord's mercy is universal - that is, it reaches out to every individual human being. For gentiles are born human beings the same as those within the Church, who are a relative minority; and they are not to blame because they do not know the Lord. Consequently the nature of their state and condition in the next life has in the Lord's Divine mercy been shown to me.

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