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The reason the church is thus formed for a person by the Lord is that he is then linked with the Lord, receiving good from Him, and truth as if from himself. So a person is in the Lord and the Lord
is in him as His words in John (15:4, 5) show. It is the same if charity is substituted for good and faith for truth, because good belongs to charity and truth to faith.
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