AC 9086 - Healing on the Sabbath; AC 9088 - When Good or Truth Are Being Perverted; AC 9089 - Dead

AC 9086 [2] - Healing on the Sabbath

Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a well,
and will not straightway draw him out on the Sabbath day?
(Luke 14:5)

This was said by the Lord
when He healed the man who had the dropsy
on the Sabbath day .
In that church, the Sabbath day was most holy
because it signified the heavenly marriage,
which is the conjunction of good and truth from the Lord;
consequently healings were performed
by the Lord on the Sabbath day,
because "healing" involved the healing of the spiritual life;
and the disease of dropsy the perversion of truth and good;
thus "healing" involved the amendment
and restoration of perverted truth.
For all the Lord's miracles
involved and signified states of the church,
as in general do all Divine miracles.

AC 9088 [2] - When Good or Truth Are Being Perverted

If good or truth is being perverted by means of falsity,
then that which has been perverted
must be amended by means of truth;
within the church by means of truth from the Word,
or from doctrine which is from the Word.
The reason why this must he so,
is that truth teaches what is evil and what is false,
and in this way the person sees and acknowledges it;
and when he sees and acknowledges,
he can then be amended.
For the Lord flows into those things in a person
which the person knows;
but not into those things which he does not know;
and therefore He does not amend
what is evil or what is false
until the person has been instructed that it is evil or false.
From this it is
that those who do the work of repentance
must see and acknowledge their evils,
and thus live a life of truth.

AC 9089 - Dead   

. . . when good dies, evil takes its place;
and when truth dies, falsity takes its place;
because what is "dead" denotes evil and falsity,
and therefore those are called "dead" who will evil,
and believe falsity . . ..