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ഒട്ടകങ്ങള് കുടിച്ചു തീര്ന്നപ്പോള് അവന് അര ശേക്കെല് തൂക്കമുള്ള ഒരു പൊന്മൂകൂത്തിയും അവളുടെ കൈക്കിടുവാന് പത്തു ശേക്കെല് തൂക്കമുള്ള രണ്ടു പൊന് വളയും എടുത്തു അവളോടു
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Arcana Coelestia #3121
3121. 'And His truth towards my master' means an influx of charity from that inflowing love. This is clear from the meaning of 'truth' as charity. In the proper sense 'truth' means the same as faith, and in the Hebrew language faith is expressed by such a term, so that what is called truth in the Old Testament Word is regularly called faith in the New Testament Word. This is also why, in what has gone before, truth has often been called the truth of faith, and good the good of love. But in the internal sense faith is nothing else than charity - see what has often been stated and shown already, such as the following:
No faith exists except through love, 30-38.
Faith does not exist except where charity does so, 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2261.
Faith is faith grounded in charity, 1608, 2049, 2116, 2343, 2349, 2417.
Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2190, 2228, 2442.
From these paragraphs it is evident that in the internal sense truth or faith is the same as charity. Indeed all faith springs from charity, and faith that does not spring from it is not faith. Or what amounts to the same, all truth in the internal sense is good, since all truth is grounded in good, and truth that is not grounded in it is not truth. For truth is nothing else than the form that good takes, 3049; it is born from, and receives its life from nothing other than good.
Mark 12:28-35
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One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
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Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
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you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
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The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
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The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
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When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
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Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
