1088. 'Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness' means that this is what ought to be done and that no notice ought to be taken of such things as errors and faults resulting from reasonings. This is clear from the fact that this statement is a repetition, for this wording is almost the same as that immediately previous and the conclusion to it. For this parent Church, or therefore also serves as the conclusion to it. For this parent Church, or member of this Church, was such that it acted in this fashion not out of evil-mindedness but in simplicity, as becomes clear from what follows next where it is said that 'Noah awoke from his wine', that is, was better informed.
[2] In regard to the subject under discussion, people with whom no charity is present think nothing else than evil of the neighbour and speak nothing but evil. If they say anything good it is for the sake of themselves or of one with whom they seek to curry favour under an outward show of friendship. But people in whom charity is present think nothing else than good of the neighbour and speak nothing but good, and this not for their own sake or that of him with whom they seek to curry favour, but from the Lord thus at work within charity. The former are like evil spirits, the latter like angels, residing with someone. Evil spirits never do anything else than stir up a person's evils and falsities and condemn him. Angels however stir up nothing but goods and truths; and things that are evil and false they excuse. From these considerations it is clear that with those in whom no charity is present evil spirits have dominion, through whom man communicates with hell; and with those in whom charity is present angels have dominion, through whom man communicates with heaven.
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