AE 696d - spiritual fear, natural fear

AE 696d [23]
... spiritual fear is a holy fear that abides within every spiritual love variously according to the quality and the quantity of the love. In such fear is the spiritual man, and he knows that the Lord does not do evil to anyone, much less does He destroy any one as to body and soul in Gehenna, but that He does good to all and desires to raise up every one as to body and soul into heaven to Himself. This is why the the fear of the spiritual man is a holy fear lest by the evil of life and the falsity of doctrine man should turn away, and thus do harm to that Divine love in himself.

But natural fear is a fearfulness, dread, and terror of dangers and punishments, and thus of hell; this fear abides within every corporeal love, also variously according to the quality and quantity of the love. The natural man who has such fear does not know otherwise than that the Lord does evil to the evil, condemns them, casts them into hell, and punishes them, and on this account such persons are in fear and dread of the Lord.

[24]
... "fear" has reference to the spiritual man, and "dread" to the natural man. That the spiritual man may not be in such fear as the natural man is in, it is said "Fear not."

Fear not, O Jacob, My servant,
and be not dismayed, O Israel,
for I will save the from afar;
Jacob shall be tranquil and quiet,
none shall make him afraid.
(Jeremiah 30:9, 10)