5544. This was not a visitation, for these things had often preceded, but it was a matter of orderly arrangement. For in the middle are the best; in the peripheral regions those who are good, by degrees toward the east those who have a clear perception of what is good, to the west those who have a dim perception of what is good; those to the south are those who have clear perception of what is true, those to the north who have a dim at perception of what is true.

164. [164.] 30. That everyone can see that it is charity not to steal from another by artifices or openly, that it is charity not to wish at all to commit adultery with another's wife, that it is charity not to injure the neighbor out of hatred and vengeance, that it is charity not to slander another, and so on. One who abhors these things as sins has charity, because he loves his neighbor.