AC 9424 - The Word and Doctrine; AC 9430 - A Warning

AC 9424 [2-3]

. . . be it known that all the doctrine of the church
must be from the Word,
and that the doctrine
from any other source than the Word
is not doctrine in which there is anything of the church,
still less anything of heaven.
But the doctrine must be collected from the Word,
and while it is being collected,
the man must be in enlightenment from the Lord;
and he is in enlightenment
when he is in the love of truth for the sake of truth,
and not for the sake of self and the world.
These are those who are enlightened in the Word
when they read it,
and who see truth,
and from it make doctrine for themselves.
The reason of this is
that such communicate with heaven,
thus with the Lord;
and being enlightened by the Lord in this way
they are led to see the truths of the Word
such as they are in heaven;
for the Lord inflows through heaven
into their understandings,
because it is the man's interior understanding
that is enlightened.
And at the same time
the Lord flows in with faith,
by means of the cooperation of the new will,
a feature of which is to be affected with truth
for the sake of truth.
From all this it can now be seen how
the doctrine of truth and good
is given man by the Lord. 

That this doctrine supports the Word
in respect to its literal or external sense,
is plain to everyone who reflects;
for everyone in the church
who thinks from doctrine sees truths in the Word
from his doctrine and according thereto,
and explains those which do not coincide with it;
and those which seem to be opposed to it
he passes by
as though he did not see or understand them;
that all do so, even heretics, is known.
But those who are in the genuine doctrine of truth
from the Word,
and in enlightenment when they read the Word,
see everywhere truths that agree,
and nothing whatever that is opposed;
for they do not dwell upon what is said therein
according to appearances,
and according to the common apprehension of men,
because they know
that if the appearances are unfolded,
and as it were unswathed,
the truth is laid bare.
Nor are they led astray by falsities
from the fallacies of the external senses . . ..
Be it known that the internal sense of the Word
contains the genuine doctrine of the church.

AC 9430 [2]

Let all therefore beware
of injuring the Word in any way;
for they who injure it,
injure the Divine Itself.