AE 556b - the law in heaven

AE 556b [8]
"All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you,
do you even so to them;
this is the law and the prophets."
(Matthew vii. 12; Luke vi. 31)

Because this is the law in heaven,
and from heaven in the church,
therefore also every evil has with itself a corresponding punishment,
called the punishment of evil,
which is in the evil, as if conjoined with it.
From this proceeds the punishment of retaliation,
which was prescribed to the sons of Israel,
because they were external and not internal people.
Internal people, as the angels of heaven are,
do not desire to retaliate evil for evil,
but from heavenly charity they forgive,
for they know that the Lord defends against the evil all who are in good,
that He defends according to the good which they possess,
and that He would not defend, if, on account of the evil done to them,
they were to be fired by enmity, hatred, and revenge,
for these things turn protection aside.