AE 544 [3]
"To dwell among scorpions" (Ezekiel 2:6)
means among those who have persuaded themselves,
and strongly persuade others, of falsities,
and who do not admit any truth;
therefore they are called "stubborn and thorny,"
also "hard of face and obdurate in heart."
Moreover, in those who are in a strong persuasion of falsity
the interiors which belong to the rational mind are closed up,
consequently they think and speak from the lowest sensual only,
and when this sensual is enkindled by the fire of self-love
it is hard and obdurate,
and also hardens and makes obdurate
the interiors of others who it addresses.
[4] . . . wisdom is of truth from good,
while cunning is of falsity from evil;
and falsity from evil destroys truth from good . . .
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