Translations:
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (Chadwick)
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel)
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (Whitehead)
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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (1758) Passage 193
Translated By John Chadwick in 1990
 
193. Since to-day faith is rare because of the absence of charity, the church being at its end, few people nowadays experience any degree of spiritual temptation. As a result it is hardly known what spiritual temptations are and what purpose they serve.