Swedenborg. The understanding of his works. Practical learning. » Relation of man and woman in the church https://newchurch.net Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all things shall be added unto you (Matt. 6:33) Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Notes on the Teachings of the Word concerning Divorce https://newchurch.net/notes-on-the-teachings-of-the-word-concerning-divorce/ https://newchurch.net/notes-on-the-teachings-of-the-word-concerning-divorce/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:27:40 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=1039   It is needful for the Church to consider the interior causes of the laws of divorce given in the Word. By this all may come to a deeper understand­ing and love of the Conjugial, and of the uses of marriage, and hy this the Church may he protected against doubts and false reasonings about […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/conjugial-love-pitcairn/feed/ 0 “Thou shalt not commit adultery” https://newchurch.net/thou-shalt-not-commit-adultery/ https://newchurch.net/thou-shalt-not-commit-adultery/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:20:11 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=657   To understand this commandment, not to commit adultery, we must understand the origin of adultery, and in order to understand the origin of adultery we must understand the nature of the marriage between husband and wife. We read: “There is the truth of good and good from truth from that or truth from good […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/thou-shalt-not-commit-adultery/feed/ 0 Conjugial Love and the Love of Uses https://newchurch.net/conjugial-love-and-the-love-of-uses/ https://newchurch.net/conjugial-love-and-the-love-of-uses/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:19:31 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=471 “That there is love truly Conjugial which is so rare at this day that it is not known what it is and scarcely that it is?” Does ’’this day” apply to us? There have always been in the world hundreds of thousands of what are called happy marriages. We must therefore make a distinction between […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/conjugial-love-and-the-love-of-uses/feed/ 0 THE WAY LEADING TO CONJUGIAL LOVE https://newchurch.net/the-way-leading-to-conjugial-love/ https://newchurch.net/the-way-leading-to-conjugial-love/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:01:24 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=467   An Address by the Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, delivered before the Assembly of the Lord’s New Church which is Nova Hierosolyma, June 16th, 1946 (Before delivering this address Mr. Pitcairn read to the Assembly the article “The Nineteenth of June 1935″ by Mr. Groeneveld, printed in the Sixth Fascicle of Do Hemelsche Leer, pps. 33-360) We read: […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/the-way-leading-to-conjugial-love/feed/ 0 Understanding of the genuine natural sense of the Word https://newchurch.net/understanding-of-the-genuine-natural-sense-of-the-word/ https://newchurch.net/understanding-of-the-genuine-natural-sense-of-the-word/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:12:23 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=330 The idea that the teachings of the Latin Word concerning government did not apply to the natural government of the Church and State was first propounded by the Rev. Т.Е. Harris [editor of HL], along with the proposition that what is said of marriage does not apply to the marriage of man and woman. An […]

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]]> https://newchurch.net/understanding-of-the-genuine-natural-sense-of-the-word/feed/ 0 Series of 5 doctrinal classes on the Conjugial Love and the relation of man and woman in the church T. Pitcairn https://newchurch.net/5-doctrinal-classes-on-the-conjugial-love/ https://newchurch.net/5-doctrinal-classes-on-the-conjugial-love/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:15:45 +0000 http://newchurch.net/?p=290 We read concerning the Most Ancient Church, “The highest happiness and deliciousness were their marriages, and whatever admitted of the comparison they likened to marriage, in order that in this way they might perceive its felicity. Being also internal men, they were delighted only with internal things. External things they merely saw with the eyes, […]

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