AC 9212 - "When you are old . . ."

AC 9212 [8]
Jesus said to Peter,
Truly, truly I say to you,
When you were a boy
you girded your loins
and walked where you wished.
But when you are old
you will stretch out your hands,
[and] another will gird your loins
and lead you where you do not wish.
(John 21:18)

'When you are old you will stretch out your hands,
and another will gird your loins
and lead you where you do not wish'
signifies that at the end of the church
there will be no faith,
and then falsities of evil
from the loves of self and the world 
will take its place,
and will reduce it to bondage.
This is the secret
which lies hidden in these words of the Lord,
and which can be seen only from their internal sense.
From this it is again evident in what manner the Lord spoke,
namely, that in every detail there was an internal sense,
to the intent that by means of the Word
heaven might be conjoined with the world;
for without the Word there is no conjunction,
that is, without revealed Divine truth;
and if there is no conjunction,
the human race perishes.