AC 7155 - "They Saw They Were in Evil"; AC 7161 - Odor and Stink

AC 7155 - "They Saw They Were in Evil

. . . that by "they saw that they were in evil" (Exodus 5:19)
is meant that they perceived themselves
to be near damnation.
For as those who are in despair
suppose that they can no longer endure the assaults,
they think that they must need
to deliver themselves up as captives to falsities,
such being the state of despair;
but then they begin to be relieved,
and to be led as it were out of thick darkness into light.

AC 7161 - Odor and Stink

. . . the meaning of "odor,"
as being the perceptivity of what is grateful;
and as "odor" denotes the perceptivity of what is grateful,
it denotes the perceptivity of faith and charity,
for these are grateful;
and because these are grateful,
compliance is most grateful,
for compliance is the very good itself of faith and charity;
so here it is that by "odor" is here meant compliance.

As "odor" denotes all that which is grateful to the Lord,
so "stink" denotes that which is ungrateful to the Lord,
consequently "stink" denotes aversion,
and also abomination.
Moreover, "stink" actually corresponds to
the aversion and abomination which are of falsity and evil.
As "stink" denotes that which belongs to aversion,
it is used in the Word to denote aversion . . ..