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THE SWEDENBORG LIBRARY.

Hence it is that every one, of whatsoever religion he be, may be saved, even the Gentiles who have no truths from the Word, if they have only respected the good of life as an end. (A. C. 10,648.)

There are falsities which agree with the good of the church, and there are those which do not agree with it. The falsities which agree, are those in which good lies concealed, and which can, therefore, by means of good, be bended to truths; but the falsities which do not agree with the good of the church, are those in which evil lies concealed, and which therefore cannot be bended to truths. (A. C. 9258.)

In respect to truth, it is such that the false may be adjoined to it; yet not the false in which there is evil, but in which there is good like that with little children, and with boys and girls while they are yet in innocence, and with well-disposed Gentiles who are in ignorance, and with all who are in the sense of the letter of the Word, and remain in the doctrine thence derived, and still have the good of life for an end; for this good when regarded as an end, drives away all the malevolence of the false, and by application forms it into some resemblance of the truth. (A. C. 9809.)

There are falsities which are accepted as truths when good is in them, especially the good of innocence, as among the Gentiles, and also among some within the church. (A. C. 4736.)

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