Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1328

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1328. For if only the miserable, the poor, orphans, and widows were to inherit heaven, then all others would be shut out. Yet the truth is rather that fewer of the beggars, of the poor in respect to bodily nourishment, even of the physically miserable, when they are not miserable spiritually, come into heaven, than of others. How miserable is the life of many sailors, and of many soldiers, as well as many of the lowest class of people, yet who do not think at all about life eternal and heaven, besides other like cases that ought, as I also said, to be more fully aired and explained. It was said that the queen of Arabia should be let into heaven before such people; and I would even venture to guess that she is indeed in heaven.


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