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the good that is from the Lord. 227
Such, then, are here meant
by those that “turn to righteousness”; and such are meant also
in the Lord’s words,
The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father (Matt. 13:43).
Such “shine forth as the sun” because they are in love to the
Lord from the Lord, and that love is meant by the “sun” (see
above, n. 116–125). The light of such is flame colored; and the
ideas of their thought are so tinged with what is flaming
because they receive the good of love directly from the Lord as
the sun in heaven.
349. All who have acquired intelligence and wisdom in the
world are received in heaven and become angels, each in
accordance with the quality and degree of his intelligence and
wisdom. For whatever a man acquires in the world abides, and
he takes it with him after death; and it is further increased and
filled out, but within and not beyond the degree of his
affection and desire for truth and its good, those with but little
affection and desire receiving but little, and yet as much as they
are capable of receiving within that degree; while those with
much affection and desire receive much. The degree itself of
affection and desire is like a measure that is filled to the full, he
that has a large measure receiving more, and he that has a small
measure receiving less. This is so because man’s love, to which
affection and desire belong, receives all that accords with itself;
227. The merit and righteousness of the Lord is the good that rules in
heaven (n. 9486, 9983). He that is “righteous” or “made righteous” is one to
whom the merit and righteousness of the Lord is ascribed; and he is
“unrighteous” who holds to his own righteousness and merit (n. 5069,
9263). The quality of those in the other life who claim righteousness to
themselves (n. 942, 2027).
In the Word “righteousness” is predicated of good and “judgment” of
truth; therefore “doing righteousness and judgment” is doing good and truth
(n. 2235, 9857).