224. I have also talked with one of the preachers about the<br>holy state in which those are who listen to the preaching in the<br>churches. He said that everyone is pious, devout, and holy in<br>harmony with his interiors, which pertain to love and faith, for<br>holiness itself is in love and faith, because the Divine of the<br>Lord is in them. He also said that he did not know what<br>outward holiness is apart from love and faith; and when he<br>thought about it he said that perhaps it is something<br>counterfeiting holiness in outward appearance, either<br>conventional or hypocritical; and that such holiness is kindled<br>and sustained by spurious fire from the love of self and the<br>world.
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