AC 9049 - an eye for an eye from the Gospel of Matthew

AC 9049 [5]
You have heard that it was said,
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you,
Resist not evil; but whosoever shall strike you on your right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
And if any man would drag thee to law,
and take away your coat,
let him have your cloak also.
And whosoever shall compel you to go one mile,
go with him twain.
Give to everyone that asks you,
and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
(Matt. 5:38-42)

Who cannot see that these words are not to be understood
according to the sense of the letter?
For who will turn the left cheek to him who deals a blow on the right cheek?
And who will give his cloak to him who would take away his coat?
And who will give his property to all who ask?
And who will not resist evil?
But no one can understand these words who does not know
what is signified by "the right cheek" and "the left cheek,"
what by "a coat" and "a cloak," also what by "a mile,"
and likewise by "borrowing," and so on.
The subject there treated of is spiritual life, or the life of faith;
not natural life, which is the life of the world.
The Lord there opens, and also in this chapter, and the following,
the interior things that belong to heaven,
but by means of such things as are in the world.
The reason why He did so by such things, was that not worldly men,
but only heavenly men, should understand.
The reason why worldly men were not to understand,
was lest they should profane the interior things of the Word,
for by so doing they would cast themselves into the most frightful hell of all,
which is the hell of the profaners of the Word.

[7] From all this it is evident in what manner the Lord spoke
when He was in the world, namely, that He spoke,
as everywhere in the Word of the Old Testament,
at the same time for the angels in heaven,
and for men in the world;
for His speech was in itself Divine and heavenly,
because it was from the Divine, and through heaven.
But the things which He spoke
were presented by means of such things as corresponded in the world.
What they correspond to, the internal sense teaches.