AE 1064 - Joking About the Word

AE 1064 [3]

Fifth Kind of Profanation

This kind is not like the others that have been treated of,
for it consists in jesting from the Word and about the Word.
For those who make jokes from the Word
do not regard it as holy,
and those who joke about it hold it in no esteem.
And yet
the Word is the very Divine truth of the Lord with men,
and the Lord is present in the Word, and heaven also;
for every particular of the Word communicates with heaven,
and through heaven with the Lord;
therefore to jest from the Word and about the Word
is to bespatter the holy things of heaven
with the dust of the earth.