7255. EXODUS CHAPTER 7.

TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY

Since good constitutes heaven with a person, while evil constitutes hell, one needs to be thoroughly acquainted with what good is and what evil is. It has been stated already that good consists in what love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour desire, and that evil consists in what self-love and love of the world desire, from which it follows that one cannot know except from those kinds of love what good is or what evil is.