AC 9324 - Sickness

AC 9324

And I will remove sickness from the midst of you.
(Exodus 23:25)

'And I will remove sickness from the midst of you'
means protection from falsifications of truth
and adulterations of good.
This is clear from the meaning of
'removing from the midst of you' -
when it refers to falsified truths
and adulterated forms of good,
meant by 'sickness' -
as protection,
for when the Lord protects someone from them
He removes them;
and from the meaning of 'sickness'
as falsified truth and adulterated good.
These are the sicknesses of spiritual life,
for spiritual life receives its existence from
and is kept in existence by
the truths that belong to faith
and the forms of good that belong to love.
When these are falsified and perverted, a person sickens;
and when they are completely rejected in the heart
the person is dead spiritually.