ir good. This is why good loves truth and truth
loves good, and they wish to be conjoined. So far, therefore, as such a
man learns truths from an affection for them so far he does goods more
wisely and more fully, more wisely because he knows how to distinguish
uses and to do them with judgment and justice, and more fully because
all truths are present in the performance of uses, and form the
spiritual sphere that the affection for them produces. (A.E., n. 975.)

Take judges for an example: All who make justice venal [purchasable] by
loving the office of judging for the sake of gain from judgments, and
not for the sake of uses to their country, are thieves, and their
judgments are thefts. It is the same if judgments are given according to
friendship or favor, for friendships and favors are also profits and
gains. When these are the end and judgments are the means, all things
that are done are evil, and are what are meant in the Word by "evil
works" and "not doing judgment and justice, perverting the right of the
poor, of the needy, of the fatherless, of the widow, and of the
innocent." And when such do justice, and yet regard profit as the end
while they do a good work, to them it is not good; for justice, which is
Divine, is to them a means, and such gain is the end; and that which is
made the end is everything, while that which is made the means is
nothing except so far as it is serviceable to the end. Consequently,
after death such judges continued to love what is unjust as well as what
is just, and are condemned to hell as thieves. I say this from what I
have seen. These are such as do not abstain from evils because they are
sins, but only because they fear punishments of the civil law and the
loss of reputation, honor, and office, and thus of gain.

It is otherwise with judges who abstain from evils as sins and shun them
because they are contrary to the Divine laws, and thus contrary to God.
Such make justice their end, and they venerate, cherish, and love it as
Divine. In justice they see God, as it were, because everything just,
like everything good and true, is from God. They always join justice
with equity and equity with justice, knowing that justice must be of
equity in order to be justice, and that equity must be of justice in
order to be equity, the same as truth is of good and good is of truth.

As such make justice their end, their giving judgments is doing good
works; yet these works, which are