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d. Things on our right side have reference to the good that yields truth, while things on our left
have reference to the truth that comes from what is good: 9495 , 9604.
e. In the Word, the lesser and greater stars mean instances of recognizing what is good and true:
2495 , 2849 , 4697.everything on the right side of an angel or one of us corresponds to what
is good and yields truth, while everything on the left side corresponds to
that truth that comes from what is good.d “The good of faith” is, essen-
tially, truth that comes from what is good.119 This is why in the Word the Lord is compared to the sun when the
focus is on love and to the moon when the focus is on faith. It is also why
the sun means a love for the Lord that comes from the Lord, and the
moon means a faith in the Lord that comes from the Lord. Compare the
following passages.
The light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days. (Isaiah 30 : 26 )When I annihilate you, I will cover the heavens and blacken the stars. I
will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not make its light. I
will blacken all the luminaries in the heavens above you and send dark-
ness over your land. (Ezekiel 32 : 7 – 8 )I will darken the sun in its rising, and the moon will not make its light
shine. (Isaiah 13 : 10 )The sun and the moon will be blackened and the stars will withdraw
their shining; the sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood. (Joel 2 : 2 , 10 , 31 ; 3 : 15 )The sun became black as hairy sackcloth, and the moon became like
blood, and the stars fell to earth. (Revelation 6 : 12 [– 13 ])Immediately after the affl iction of those days, the sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven.
(Matthew 24 : 29 )And elsewhere. In these passages, the sun means love and the moon faith,
while the stars mean instances of recognizing what is good and true.e
These are said to be darkened, to lose their light, and to fall from heaven
when they no longer exist.