AR 678
By "a sore," here nothing else is signified
but evil originating in a life according to this head of doctrine,
that faith alone
without the works of the Law
justifies and saves . . .
by "an evil and noxious sore" are signified interior evils and falsities,
destructive of all good and truth in the church.
By "noxious" is signified what is destructive,
for evil cannot but destroy good, and falsity truth.
[2] . . . when a person rejects evil from himself,
he at the same time rejects its lusts;
but still not from himself, but from the Lord.
A person can indeed of himself reject evil, but not its lusts;
wherefore, when he wills to reject evil, by fighting against it,
he will look up to the Lord;
for the Lord operates from inmosts to ultimates,
for He enters through the soul of a person, and purifies him.
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