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 that those will be received into, or are already members of, the New Jerusalem, who do make account of the ten commandments, and do shun the evils therein enumerated as sins. And are not some of this class to be found in every church organization in Christendom?—Yes, and some outside of all the churches? Are there not some in all the sects, and some outside of them all, who shun as sins against God the evils forbidden by the ten commandments? Is it probable that these people are or ever will be all united in one and the same visible organization? Yet none of them are without the New Jerusalem, according to the testimony of the inspired Word. Where are they, then? Within it, undoubtedly; for if not without, they must be within. Accordingly we read in the verse immediately preceding:—

"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city:"—

"Which means," says Swedenborg, "that they enjoy eternal felicity who live according to the Lord's commandments, to the end that they may be in the Lord and the Lord in them by love, and in his new church by knowledges concerning Him." (A. R. 951.) "Gates mean introductory truths which are knowledges from the Word. The truths and goods of heaven and the church are in the knowledges derived from the Word;