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And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exodus 23:16
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings #116
116. Believing what the Word or the church teaches and not living by it may look like faith, and some may even conjecture that they are saved by it; but the truth is that no one is saved by faith alone. Faith alone is a conviction one deliberately induces in oneself; 1 therefore I need now to describe the nature of such self-induced convictions.
Footnotes:
1. The Latin term here translated "conviction one deliberately induces in oneself" and elsewhere as "self-induced conviction" is fides persuasiva, literally, "persuasive faith. " On this Latin phrase, see note 1 in New Jerusalem 49. [Editors]
