103. And hast not failed, signifies so far as they could. This is evident from the signification of "not failing," in reference to those who are eager for the knowledges of truth and good, as being so far as they could; for in what now follows, a life according to these knowledges is treated of. Those who are in a life according to these go forward and do not fail; but those who are as yet in knowledges alone, go forward as far as they can, but do not yet have the light of life, from which is vigor.
Matthew 21:9
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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Arcana Coelestia # 9984
9984. The actual delight that resides in the love of doing good without thought of benefit to oneself is a reward that lasts forever; for all love and affection inscribed on a person's life remains permanently. Into that good 1 heaven is introduced, and eternal happiness from the Lord.
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1. The meaning of the Latin here (in illum) is not certain. But in the small work De Nova Hierosolyma Et Ejus Doctrina Coelesti, published two years later, Swedenborg wrote in id bonum (into that good).
