{Footnote 1} Those in the spiritual kingdom are in truths, and those in the celestial kingdom are in good (n. 863, 875, 927, 1023, 1043, 1044, 1555, 2256, 4328, 4493, 5113, 9596). The good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of charity towards the neighbor and this good in its essence is truth (n. 8042, 10296).
{Footnote 2} In the Word “righteousness” is predicated of good, and “Judgment” of truth therefore “to do righteousness and judgment” means good and truth (n. 2235, 9857). “Great judgments” means the law of Divine order, thus Divine truths (n. 7206).
216. As government from good, which is the kind of government that exists in the Lord’s celestial kingdom, is called righteousness; and government from truth, which is the kind of government that exists in the Lord’s spiritual kingdom, is called judgment, so the terms “righteousness and judgment” are used in the Word when heaven and the church are treated of, “righteousness” signifying celestial good, and “judgment” spiritual good, which good, as has been said above, is in its essence truth, as in the following passages:
Of peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon His kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it in judgment and in righteousness from henceforth and even to eternity (Isaiah 9:7).
By “David” here the Lord is meant;{1} and by “His kingdom” heaven, as is evident from the following passage:
I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and He shall reign as King, and shall deal intelligently and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land (Jer. 23:5).
Jehovah is exalted,
for He dwelleth on high; He hath
filled Zion with judgment
and righteousness (Isaiah 33:5).
“Zion” also
means heaven and the church.{2}
I, Jehovah, doing judgment
and righteousness on the earth,
for in these things
I delight (Jer. 9:24).
I will betroth thee
unto Me forever, and I will betroth
thee unto Me in righteousness
and judgment (Hosea 2:19).
O Jehovah, in the heavens
Thy righteousness is like the
mountains of God, and
Thy judgments are like the great
deep (Psalm 36:5, 6).
They ask of Me the judgments
of righteousness, they long
for an approach unto
God (Isaiah 58:2). So in other
places.
{Footnote 1} By “David” in
the prophetic parts of the Word, the
Lord is meant (n. 1888, 9954).
{Footnote 2} In the Word “Zion”
means the church, and
specifically the celestial church (n.
2362, 9055).


