AC 10481 - only the Lord has the power

AC 10481
Deliver me from mine enemies O my God;
set me on high from those who rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
Lo, they lie in wait for my soul.
(Psalm 59:1-3).

In these and many other passages,
by "enemies" and "those who rise up against"
are signified evils and falsities which are from hell.
They are called "those who rise up against,"
because evils and falsities rise up against goods and truths;
but not the reverse.

[2] That those who are in external things separate from what is internal
have no power to resist the evils and falsities which are from hell,
is because all power to resist these is from the Divine.
Wherefore they who have been separated from what is internal,
who also have been separated from what is Divine,
have no power;
consequently they are borne along by evils and falsities
wherever hell carries them, like a flock and a straw by the wind....