Doctrine of Faith #6

Ngu Emanuel Swedenborg

Funda lesi Sigaba

  
Yiya esigabeni / 72  
  

6. It is apparent from this that faith and truth are bound up together. Because of this, ancient peoples, who out of an affection for truths thought more about them than people today, spoke of truth instead of faith.

That, too, is why truth and faith are the same word in Hebrew, being called emunah or amen.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 72  
  

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.