6632. Thus it is also that teachings about charity, which were so precious to the ancients, are part of those things that at the present day have become lost. Does anyone at the present day know what charity is in the true sense of the word, or what is meant by neighbour in the true sense of that word? Yet those teachings figure prominently in so many and such important arcana that not a thousandth part of them can be described. The whole of Sacred Scripture is nothing else than teachings about love and charity, as the Lord also teaches when He says,