AC 6853 - For I have Known Their Sorrows; AC 6860 - The Hivite and the Jebusite

AC 6853 - For I have Known Their Sorrows

For I have known their sorrows.
(Exodus 3:7)

That this means foresight in regard to
how much they would be immersed in falsities,
is evident from the meaning of "knowing,"
when said of the Lord, as being foresight
(that "to know" denotes foresight is
because the Lord knows each and all things from eternity);
and from the signification of "sorrows,"
as being immersion in falsities;
for when those who are in good
are immersed in falsities,
they come into anguish and anxieties,
and are tormented;
for they love truths and abhor falsities,
and constantly think about salvation,
and about their unhappiness
if falsities should rule with them.
But those who are not in good,
care not whether they are in falsities or in truths,
for they do not think at all about salvation,
or about unhappiness,
because they do not believe in these things.
The delights of the loves of self and of the world
take away all belief about the life after death.
These persons are perpetually immersed in falsities.
Immersion in falsities appears in the other life
like one who is immersed in waves,
which according to the abundance of falsities
rise higher and higher,
until at last they rise over his head;
the waves appearing thinner or denser
according to the quality of the falsities.
With the wicked
the immersion appears as a mistiness
and as a cloudiness more or less dusky,
which compasses them about,
and quite separates them
from the serenity of the light of heaven.

AC 6860 - The Hivite and the Jebusite

And the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
(Exodus 3:8)

That this means occupied by idolatry
in which there is something of good and truth,
is evident from the representation of the Hivite,
as being idolatry in which there is something of good;
and from the representation of the Jebusite,
as being idolatry in which there is something of truth.
That such things are meant by these nations,
can be seen from the fact
that it was permitted that a covenant should be made
with the Gibeonites
by Joshua and the elders (Josh. 9:3 seq.);
and that they were made hewers of wood
and drawers of water for the house of God (verses 23, 27);
that these were Hivites see verse 7, and 11:19.
That by the Jebusites are represented
those who were in idolatry,
but in which there was something of truth,
can be seen from the fact
that the Jebusites were long tolerated in Jerusalem,
and were not driven out of it
(Josh. 15:63; 18:28; 2 Sam. 5:6-10).