Charity (Coulson) n. 107

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107. 4. A man is a form of charity of such a quality as, with him, good of the will is conjoined to truths of the understanding.

Everything of the will is called a good, and everything of the understanding a truth, because the will is in the heat of heaven, and the understanding in the light of heaven. And just as the will without the understanding has not any quality, and so cannot be called anything, but takes on a quality and becomes something in the understanding, and becomes of such and such a quality, or is something or other, according to what is in the understanding; - so it is in the case of a good without truth, and a good with truth.


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