AC 9007 - "man"; AC 9014 - forgiveness of sins

AC 9007
. . . in heaven no attention is paid to person,
or to anything of person;
but to things abstracted from person;
consequently where "a man" is mentioned in the Word,
they do not perceive a man, because a man is a person;
but instead they perceive that faculty of his
by virtue of which he is a man,
namely, the intellectual faculty;
and when they perceive this faculty,
they perceive the truth of faith,
because the truth of faith belongs to it,
and not only enlightens it, but also forms it.
And as by "a man" [vir]
there is perceived in heaven the intellectual of man,
so by "a man" [homo]
there is perceived his will;
because man is man [homo] from the will;
but is man [vir] from the understanding.
And as the will is the man himself,
therefore the good of love is the man,
for this belongs to the will,
and perfects, and makes it.

AC 9014 [2,3]
. . . in spiritual things, deceit, that is, hypocrisy,
cannot be forgiven.
The reason is that deceit is like poison,
for it penetrates even to the interiors,
and kills everything of faith and charity,
and destroys the remains,
which are the truths and goods of faith and charity
stored up by the Lord in the interiors of a person,
which being destroyed
nothing of spiritual life any longer survives.

It is believed by many within the church
that the forgiveness of sins
is the wiping out and washing away of them,
as of filth by water;
and that after forgiveness they go on their way
clean and pure.
Such an opinion prevails
especially with those who ascribe
everything of salvation to faith alone.
But be it known
that the case with the forgiveness of sins is quite different.
The Lord forgives everyone his sins,
because He is mercy itself.
Nevertheless they are not thereby forgiven
unless the person performs serious repentance,
and desists from evils,
and afterward lives a life of faith and charity,
and this even to the end of his life.
When this is done,
the person receives from the Lord spiritual life,
which is called new life.
When from this new life
the person views the evils of his former life,
and turns away from them,
and regards them with horror,
then for the first time are the evils forgiven,
for then the person is held in truths and goods by the Lord,
and is withheld from evils.
From this it is plain what is the forgiveness of sins,
and that it cannot be granted within an hour,
nor within a year.
That this is so the church knows,
for it is said to those who come to the Holy Supper
that their sins are forgiven
if they begin a new life by abstaining from evils
and abhorring them.