Doctrine of Holy Scripture - Swedenborg Foundation

DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 216Jehovah shall judge thy people in righteousness, and thy miserable injudgment (Ps. 72:2).Righteousness and judgment are the support of thy throne (89:14).When I shall have learned the judgments of thy righteousness. Seven timesa day do I praise thee, because of the judgments of thy righteousness (Ps.119:7, 164).God executeth the justice of Jehovah, and his judgment with Israel (Deut.33:21).The spirit of truth shall convict the world in respect of righteousness, andof judgment (John 16:8–10). (And in other places.)The reason “judgment” and “righteousness” are mentioned sofrequently is that “judgment” is predicated of truths, and“righteousness” of good, and therefore to “do judgment andrighteousness” means to act from truth and from good. The reason“judgment” is predicated of truth, and “righteousness” of good isthat the Lord’s government in the spiritual kingdom is called“judgment,” and in the celestial kingdom “righteousness” (onwhich subject see Heaven and Hell, n. 214–215). As “judgment” ispredicated of truth, in some passages we read:Truth and righteousness (as in Isa. 11:5; Ps. 85:11; and elsewhere).86. That repetitions of the same thing occur in the Word onaccount of the marriage of good and truth, may be seen quiteclearly from passages where “nations” and “peoples” are mentioned:Woe to the sinful nation, to a people laden with iniquity (Isa. 1:4).The peoples that walk in darkness have seen a great light: thou hastmultiplied the nation (Isa. 9:2–3).Asshur, the rod of mine anger, I will send him against a hypocritical nation,and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge (Isa. 10:5–6).It shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, which standeth foran ensign of the peoples, shall the nations seek (Isa. 11:10).