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Rh contrary, by enlarging the sphere of their mental treasures, through an appropriation of the excellences, and energies, and blessedness of all other beings with whom they stand connected, enjoy a perpetual and inexhaustible fund of intellectual property, and possession, and bliss, and thus experience in their delighted bosoms, not only a deliverance from all the malignity of envy, but also a happy fulfilment of the Divine promise, He that overcometh shall inherit all things. (Rev. xxi. 7.)

99. The Lord, in speaking to Peter, (John xxi. 16, 17,) twice says, Feed My sheep, because the first sheep denote those who are in the good of love and charity, and the second those who are in the good of truth or faith.

100. Jesus Christ says to His disciples, The Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and believed that I came out from God, (John xvi. 27,) to instruct them, that, by virtue of their conjunction of life with Him by love and faith, they had conjunction of life also with the Eternal Father, or the Supreme Divine Good, who was one with Him.

101. When Jesus Christ said to Simon, ''Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest Me no water for My feet; but she hath washed My feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. Thou gavest Me no kiss, but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss My feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this woman hath anointed My''