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THE CHURCH AS ONE MAN.
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this, that such is the influx with every man of the church. By the man of the church is meant one who is in the good of charity and hence in the truths of faith from the Lord; for charity from which is faith, is the church itself with man, because these are from the Lord; for the Lord flows-in into that good which is its internal, and through that into the affection of truth which is its external, and through that affection into the delights of external truth which are in the extremes.

As the case is with the man of the church in particular, so also it is with the church in general, that is, with all who constitute the Lord's church. The reason is, that the universal church before the Lord is as one man; for the heaven of the Lord with which the church acts in unison, is before Him as one man, as may be manifest from what has been shown concerning heaven as the Grand Man, at the close of several chapters in Genesis.

In consequence of this, the case is similar with the man of the church in particular; for the man of the church in particular is a heaven, a church and kingdom of the Lord in the least effigy.

Moreover the case with the church is as with man himself, in that there are two fountains of life with him, namely, the Heart and the Lungs. It is known that the first [principle] of his life is the heart, and the second is the lungs; and from these two fountains all things in general and in particular which are in man, live.

The heart of the Grand Man, that is, of heaven and

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