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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:27
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.
Voetnoten:
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]
