Divine Providence # 214

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214. Divine Providence Focuses on Eternal Matters, and Focuses on Temporal Matters Only As They Coincide with Eternal Ones

I need to show that divine providence focuses on eternal matters and focuses on temporal matters only as they coincide with eternal ones, in the following sequence.

1. Temporal matters involve position and wealth, and therefore rank and money, in this world.

2. Eternal matters involve spiritual rank and wealth, which have to do with love and wisdom, in heaven.

3. We keep temporal and eternal matters separate, but the Lord unites them.

4. The union of temporal and eternal matters is the Lord's divine providence.

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