May 10, 2019

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
Doctrinal Series
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 3)


There must ... be governors to keep the assemblages of men in order, who should be skilled in the law, wise, and who fear God.

There must also be order among the governors, lest anyone, from caprice or ignorance, should permit evils which are contrary to order, and thereby destroy it.

This is guarded against when there are superior and inferior governors, among whom there is subordination.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 313)