AC 9809 - good and evil: they don't have much use for each other

AC 9809 [10]
Seeing that evil cannot possibly be joined to good,
because they have aversion for each other,
therefore purifications of various kinds were commanded
for Aaron and his sons when they ministered in the priest's office,
whether at the altar, or in the Tent of meeting;
and it was also commanded that the high priest
was not to marry any but a virgin;
not a widow, nor one divorced, nor a harlot (Lev. 21:13-15);
that those of the sons of Aaron who were unclean
"if they should eat of the sanctified things, were to be cut off" (Lev. 22:2-9);
that "no one of the seed of Aaron
in whom was a blemish should offer bread" (Lev. 21:17-21);
that "the high priest was not to shave his head, to rend his garments,
to defile himself with any dead body, not even of his father and his mother,
and that he was not to go out of the sanctuary" (Lev. 21:10-12).
As before said, these and many other laws were enacted
for the reason that the high priest represented the Lord as to Divine good;
and good is of such a nature that evil cannot be joined to it,
for good shuns evil,
and evil dreads good as hell dreads heaven;
and therefore no conjunction of them is possible.