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Spiritual Life and the Word of God

Chapter 8 The Eighth Commandment

Word Count: 803    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

s," shall now be explained. "To bear false witness" signifies in the sense

es to falsity the truth and good of the Word, and on the other hand to prove a falsity of doctrine to be true by confirming it by means of fallacies, appearances, fabricati

ll as the witness himself acts the part of a false witness. The same is true of every man who makes what is straight to appear crooked, and what is crooked to appear straight; likewise any ecclesiastical

through heaven. And when, in consequence, the man loves truth and loves justice he loves the Lord, for the Lord is truth itself and justice itself. And when a man loves truth and justice it

h and Tenth

that he continually longs for. But lusts belong to the love of evil, while desires and affections belong to the love of good. Now because love of the world and love of self are the fountains of all lusts, and all evil lusts are forbidden in these last two commandments, it follows that the ninth commandment forbids the l

piritual internal sense the things that are his own, that is, the wife means affection for spiritual truth and good, "man-servant and maid-servant," affection for rational truth and good serving the spiritual, and "ox and ass" affection for natural good and truth. These signify in the Word such affections; but because covet

has been said before, all lusts are of love, for it is love that covets; and as there are two evil loves to which all lusts have reference, namely, love of the world and love of self, i

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Emanuel Swedenborg Literature
“According to Wikipedia: "Emanuel Swedenborg (February 8, 1688[1]–March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works. Swedenborg explicitly rejected the common explanation of the Trinity as a Trinity of Persons, which he said was not taught in the early Christian Church. Instead he explained in his theological writings how the Divine Trinity exists in One Person, in One God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Swedenborg also rejected the doctrine of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other. The purpose of faith, according to Swedenborg, is to lead a person to a life according to the truths of faith, which is charity."”
1 Chapter 1 The First Commandment2 Chapter 2 The Second Commandment3 Chapter 3 The Third Commandment4 Chapter 4 The Fourth Commandment5 Chapter 5 The Fifth Commandment6 Chapter 6 The Sixth Commandment7 Chapter 7 The Seventh Commandment8 Chapter 8 The Eighth Commandment9 Chapter 9 Goods and Truths and Their Opposites10 Chapter 10 The First Kind of Profanation11 Chapter 11 The Second Kind of Profanation12 Chapter 12 The Third Kind of Profanation13 Chapter 13 The Holiness of the Word14 Chapter 14 The Lord is the Word15 Chapter 15 The Lord's Words Spirit and Life16 Chapter 16 Influx and Correspondence17 Chapter 17 The Three Senses in the Word18 Chapter 18 Conjunction by the Word19 Chapter 19 The Sense of the Letter