AC 4843 - Of People vs. Of the Lord

AC 4843 [4, 5]

. . . temptations are nothing else than
vastations, or removals, of falsity and evil . . .

. . . because in the person who is in temptation
evils and falsities are within or are his,
they are said to be of his household --
"a man's foes shall be they of his household."
That temptations are what are thus described
is plain from the Lord's saying
that He came not to send peace upon the earth,
but a sword,
for by a "sword" is meant truth combating,
and in the opposite sense falsity combating.

. . . but it is such things as applicable to a person,
his own (proprium),
which he must forsake;
and the spiritual and celestial things that are of the Lord
which he must receive in their place,
and this by means of temptations,
which are meant by "persecutions."