December
12

Being Just.

And the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother Mary, being betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, was found with child from the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being just, and not willing to expose her to public infamy, intended to send her away privately. (Matthew 1:18-19)

All those are in the good of charity who have conscience, that is, who are unwilling to depart in any degree from what is just and fair, and good and true, and this for the very sake of what is just and fair, and good and true, for this principle is from conscience; and they, from having conscience, think well of the neighbor and desire his welfare, even should he be an enemy, and this without any recompense. (Arcana Coelestia 2380:2)

The Lord’s presence is predicated according to the good, that is, according to the quality of the good; the quality of the good is according to the state of innocence, of love, and of charity, in which the truths of faith have been implanted or can be implanted. (Arcana Coelestia 2915)

All those are within the Grand Man who are in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor, and who do good to the neighbor from the heart according to the good that is in him, and who have a conscience of what is just and equitable; for these are in the Lord, and consequently in heaven. Conscience itself is an interior plane in which the influx of the Divine good terminates. All those with whom the interiors of the will have been terminated are taken up into heaven, for the Divine that flows in can lead them, whereas all those with whom the interior things of the will have not been terminated, betake themselves into hell; for the Divine flows through, and is turned into what is infernal. (Arcana Coelestia 4225:1, 5145)

He who does his duty from a sense of duty, and what is just from a sense of justice, exercises charity. (Arcana Coelestia 8122)

They… believe… that the works of charity consist solely in giving to the poor and in assisting the miserable, and this they also confirm from the sense of the letter of the Word; when yet the works of charity consist in doing what is just and equitable, each in his own employment, from the love of what is just and equitable, and of what is good and true. (Arcana Coelestia 4783:5)

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