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The Last Judgment (Posthumous) · 9 of 18

The Ten Commandments

259.[356] THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. (1) Ten articles, what is effected with man when he fights against evils as sins, as before.

260.(2) Then the commandments of the Decalogue, where the evils are [named] which are sins, against which one must fight. —Then of the spiritual which is then given to him, and in which he also comes; there is the spiritual there in every precept.

261.(3) What charity is, is; it is to do uses, everyone in his own function.

262.(4) What faith out of charity is, and what faith from charity is.

263.(5) Something concerning faith separated from charity, what its quality is when man is in it both as to life and doctrine.

264.[357] OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING FAITH. In a particular small work faith will be treated of, thus concerning faith separated from charity, after the work on the Last Judgment, in which all things will be described by articles, which are:

265.(1) What charity and faith are.

266.(2) One cannot be separated from the other. There is no charity where there is no faith, and there is no faith where there is no charity.

267.(3) As far as there is one, so far there is the other, in equal degree and in equal quality.

268.(4) Faith is truth.

269.(5) Faith does not produce charity, but charity faith. —Before there is charity, those things which are supposed to be of faith, are only knowledges without life.

270.(6) Faith without charity is not possible. —Faith without charity is no religion. —Faith without charity falsifies the Word. —Faith without charity blinds all the understanding of truth. —It is the end of the church when there is not the faith of charity. —Every church ends in Babylon, and in faith separate. —Faith separate from charity is predicted in the Apocalypse, and is meant by the dragon and his two beasts. —Faith without charity is meant by the he-goat in Daniel and in Matthew. —Faith without charity is meant by Philistea. —Faith without charity is meant by Cain. —Faith without charity is meant by Reuben. —Faith from charity, also faith without charity, is meant by Peter. —Charity is meant by James, and the works of charity by John. (See n. 358-364 concerning faith.)

271.The quality of the faith of the present day is to be presented, such as it is, and the degrees of justification such as they are, they are to be described briefly, and that it is the whole of theology at the present day, also that if it is confirmed there arise many falsities, but not if it is not confirmed.

272.(1) The will is double, spiritual and natural. (2) Knowledges are the storehouse of faith. (3) All things of faith can be seen. (4) Falsities of faith are not faith. (5) Faith is truth.

273.[352]. THE LAST JUDGMENT. (1) What the Last Judgment is.

274.(2) The Last Judgment has been effected three times.

275.(3) The Last Judgment was effected and is effected by the Lord from firsts by ultimates.

276.(4) The Last Judgment could not have been effected the second time, unless He Himself had come into the world, and by that as (in firsts) be also in ultimates.

277.(5) Without the Last Judgment effected by Him, thus without His Coming into the world, no one of mortals could have been saved.

278.(6) Unless the Lord had glorified His Human, even to its ultimates, no Last Judgment could be effected at this day. —Thus hereafter no one could be saved.

279.(7) After the Last Judgment a new church is always to be established and is established, and before [the Last Judgment] it could not be nor can it be.

280.(8) Therefore it is predicted in the Apocalypse, that the New Jerusalem will descend from heaven after the Last Judgment, by which is meant the New Church.

281.(9) No one is received in that church thus in heaven, after this except he who acknowledges God, one in Person and Essence, in whom is the Trinity, thus the Lord; and unless by some combats he has removed and shunned evils as sins against the Divine laws.