AC 5155 - Providence and Foresight; AC 5156 - "Being Hanged Upon Wood"

 AC 5155 - Providence and Foresight

. . . providence is predicated of good,
but foresight of evil;
for all good flows in from the Lord,
and therefore this is provided;
but all evil is from hell,
or from a person's own (proprium)
which makes one with hell;
and therefore this is foreseen.

AC 5156 - "Being Hanged Upon Wood"

And shall hang thee upon wood.
(Genesis 40:19)

That this means rejection and damnation,
is evident from the meaning of
"being hanged upon wood,"
as being rejection and damnation;
for hanging upon wood was a curse,
and a curse is a rejection from the Divine,
consequently damnation.

. . . Among the Jewish nation
there were two main penalties --
stoning and hanging.
Stoning was on account of falsity,
and hanging upon wood was on account of evil;
and this because "stone" is truth,
and in the opposite falsity;
and "wood" is good,
and the opposite sense evil . . .