172、关于前面（169节）所说的亵渎之物和亵渎。亵渎是指人里面的良善与邪恶，以及真理与虚假的一种混杂（6348节）。没有人能亵渎良善和真理，或教会和圣言的圣物，除了那些首先承认并相信它们，尤其照之生活，后来又从自己的信仰中退出，不再相信这些事，为自己和世界生活的人之外（593，1008，1010，1059，3398，3399，3898，4289，4601，8394，10287节）。幼年时期相信真理，后来又不相信的人所犯的亵渎是轻微的；但在自己里面确认真理，之后又否认它们的人所犯的亵渎是严重的（6959，6963，6971节）。那些相信真理，却生活邪恶的人，以及那些生活虔诚，却不相信真理的人就会犯亵渎罪（8882节）。人若发自内心悔改之后，又陷入以前的邪恶，就会犯亵渎罪，他后来的状态比先前的更糟糕（8394节）。在基督教界，那些通过不洁的思维和言语玷污圣言的圣物之人正在犯亵渎罪（4050，5390节）。有各种各样的亵渎（10287节）。
那些不承认圣物的人不能亵渎它们，那些不知道它们的人更不能（1008，1010，1059，9188，10284节）。教会之内的人能亵渎圣物，但教会之外的人不能（2051节）。外邦人因在教会之外，没有圣言，故不能亵渎（1327，1328，2051，9021节）。犹太人也不能亵渎圣言和教会的神圣内在事物，因为他们不承认这些事物（6963节）。因此，内层真理不会揭示给犹太人，因为如果它们被揭示并得到承认，犹太人早就亵渎它们了（3398，3479，6963节）。前面（169节）所引用的主的话就表示亵渎，即：
污灵从人里面出来，走遍干旱之地，寻求安歇，却寻不着。于是说，我要回到我所出来的屋里去。到了，就看见里面空闲，打扫干净，修饰好了，便去另带了七个比自己更恶的灵来，都进去住在那里。那人末后的景况比先前更不好了。（马太福音12:43-45）
“污灵从人里面出来”表示那些陷入邪恶之人的悔改；他“走遍干旱之地，寻求安歇”表示对这种人来说，良善的生活就具有这种性质；他所返回，发现空闲并打扫干净的“屋”表示这个人自己和他的意愿里面没有良善。他所带来并与他一起返回的“七个灵”表示与良善结合的邪恶；“那人末后的景况比先前更不好了”表示亵渎。这就是这些话的内义，因为主通过对应说话。主对祂在毕士大池所医治的那个人说的话，意思差不多一样：
看哪，你已经痊愈了，不要再犯罪，免得你的遭遇更坏。（约翰福音5:14）
主的这些话也一样：
主叫他们瞎了眼、硬了心，免得他们眼睛看见，心里明白，回转过来，我会医治他们。（约翰福音12:40）
回转并医治表示亵渎，当真理和良善被承认，后来被弃绝时，亵渎就会发生；如果犹太人回转过来并得医治，这种情况就会发生。
亵渎者的命运在来世是最糟糕的，因为他们所承认的良善和真理仍留在他们身上，邪恶和虚假也留在他们身上；由于它们粘结在一起，所以他们的生命被撕裂（571，582，6348节）。这就是为何主最小心谨慎的是防止亵渎（2426，10287节）。因此，人若不能保持在承认和信仰中，直到生命结束，就被保持远离它们（3398，3402节）。这就是为何有时人被保持在无知和外在敬拜中更好一些（301，302，303，1327节）。主将人通过承认所接受的良善和真理储存在他的内层里面（6595节）
为防止亵渎内层真理，在教会走到尽头之前，它们不会被揭示出来（3398，3399节）。这就是为何等到教会完全荒废时，主才降世并揭开内层真理（3398节）。关于这个主题，可参看《最后的审判》这本书（73，74节）。
在圣言中，“巴比伦”表示对良善的亵渎，“迦勒底”表示对真理的亵渎（1182，1283，1295，1304，1306，1307，1308，1321，1322，1326节）。这些亵渎对应于圣言中所列举的可憎的通奸类型（6348节）。以色列和犹太教会中的“吃血”（创世记9:4]）就代表亵渎，这就是为何严禁吃血（1003节）。
172、亵渎的和亵渎 （前面169节已经讨论。亵渎是人里面良善与邪恶的掺合，也是真理与谬误的掺合 （6348）。能亵渎良善和真理，或者圣言和教会教导的圣洁事物的人，只能是这样的人：他先是承认并信奉过，尤其他还据此去生活过；但后来背离信仰、不再相信，并且为自己和世界而活的那些人 （593，1008，1010，1059，3398，3399，3898，4289，4601，8394，10287）。童年时相信真理但长大后丧失信仰的人，犯的是轻微亵渎。但是成年后先从内心相信所听教导是真理，但后来背叛并否定它们的人是严重的亵渎 （6959，6963，6971）。虽然相信真理、但却生活邪恶，或者生活虔诚却不相信真理的人，都犯了亵渎之罪 （8882）。内心悔改后，如果人再回归他从前的邪恶，他犯了亵渎之罪，他日后的境况会比之前更糟 （8394）。基督教世界里那些以不洁思想和话语玷污圣言的圣洁内容的人，犯了亵渎之罪 （4050，5390）。亵渎的类型形形色色 （10287）。
不承认神圣教导的人不能亵渎它们，更不用说不知道它们的人了 （1008，1010，1059，9188，10287）。教会里的人能亵渎神圣教导，但是教会外的人不能（2051）。因为外邦人在教会之外并且没有圣言，所以不能亵渎 （1327，1328，2051，9021）。犹太人也不能亵渎圣言和教会的深刻神圣教导，因为他们不承认它们 （6963）。因此这神圣教导不向犹太人揭示，因为如果它们被揭示和承认，他们将会亵渎它们（3398，3479，6963）。上面169节引证主的圣言如此描述亵渎：
污鬼离了人身，就在无水之地过来过去，寻求安歇之处，却寻不着。于是说：‘我要回到我所出来的屋里去’。到了，就看见里面空闲，打扫感觉，修饰好了，便去另带了七个比自己更恶的鬼来，都进去住在那里。那人末后的景况比先前更不好了。（马太福音12:43-45）
“污鬼离开了人身”意指邪恶之人的悔改；“就在无水之地过来过去，寻求安歇之处，却寻不着”意指有那种品性的人追求良善生活时的感觉。他返回的“房子”，也就是他发现空闲、打扫干净和装饰好的房子，意指在此人自己和他的意志中没有良善。他招聚来和他一起返回的“七个污鬼”意指邪恶与其良善行为的纠合；“那人末后的景况比先前更不好了”意指亵渎。这是这些文字的内在含意，因为主是根据对应说的。
在圣言里，主对祂在毕大士池边治愈的人所说的话具有相同的意思：
“你已经痊愈了，不要再犯罪，恐怕你遭遇的更加厉害”（约翰福音5:14）
主的这些话也一样：
主叫他们瞎了眼、硬了心，免得他们眼睛看见，心里明白，回转过来，我就医治他们。（约翰福音12:40）
“回转和医治”意指当真理和良善被承认但后来被拒绝时可能发生的亵渎，如果犹太人回转和治愈，有可能会是这种情况。
在来世，很多亵渎的人下场是最糟的，因为他们承认的良善和真理以及邪恶和谬误仍然保留。因为它们的纠合，会导致生命的撕裂 （571，582，6348）。因此主尽最大努力以防止人涉入亵渎 （2426，10287）。这就是为什么人若不能持守信仰直到生命终结，他将被与之远隔以阻止他承认和信仰 （3398，3402）。由于这个原因人还是宁可处在无知和外在敬拜中较好 （301-303，1327，1328）。人若承认任何良善和真理，主同时就会把它深埋在他的内心里（6595）。
为防止内在真理可能被亵渎，教会终结前，它们不会被揭示（3398，3399）。这就是为什么主在教会完全败坏时，来到世界并且揭示了内在真理 （3398）。请参见《最后的审判和巴比伦的毁灭》这本书中关于这个主题所引用的内容（73，74）。
“巴比伦”在圣言中意指对良善的亵渎，“迦勒底”意指对真理的亵渎（1182，1283，1295，1304，1306-1308，1321，1322，1326）。在普通意义上，亵渎对应于圣言上论及的近亲结婚，或可憎的通奸 （6348）。在以色列和犹太教会里，吃血代表亵渎，因此它是如此严厉地被禁止（1003）。
172. Concerning what is profane and profanation (discussed above in 169 of the teachings). Profanation is a mingling within us of both goodness and evil and of both truth and falsity: 6348. The only people who can profane what is good and true, or the sacred things taught by the church and the Word, are people who first acknowledged and believed them-especially if they have lived by them-but later relapsed from their faith, ceased to believe these things, and lived for themselves and the world: 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3399, 3898, 4289, 4601, 8394, 10287. People who have true beliefs as children but lose those beliefs as adults commit a mild form of profanation; people, however, who as adults become inwardly convinced of the truth of what they were taught but later turn and deny it commit a severe form of profanation: 6959, 6963, 6971. We also commit profanation if we have true beliefs but live an evil life, or if we live a pious life but disbelieve what is true: 8882. If after heartfelt repentance we relapse into our former evils, we commit profanation, and our latter state is then worse than our former one: 8394. People in the Christian world who pollute the holy contents of the Word through unclean thoughts and speech are committing profanation: 4050, 5390. There are various general categories of profanation: 10287.
[2] We cannot profane holy teachings if we have not acknowledged them, and still less if we have not even known about them: 1008, 1010, 1059, 9188, 10284. People within the church are able to profane holy teachings, but those outside the church are not: 2051. Non-Christians cannot commit profanation, because they are outside the church and do not have the Word: 1327, 1328, 2051, 9021. Jews cannot profane the deeper holy teachings of the Word and the church, because they do not acknowledge them: 6963. That is why deeper truths have not been disclosed to Jews, since if they had been disclosed and acknowledged, they would have been profaned: 13398, 3489, 6963.
Profanation is what is meant by the Lord's words cited in 169 above:
When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it wanders through dry places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, "I will go back to my house, the house I left. " When the spirit comes and finds the house empty, swept, and decorated for it, then it goes and recruits seven other spirits worse than itself, and they come in and live there, and the latter times of that person are worse than the first. (Matthew 12:43, 44, 45)
The departure of the unclean spirit from the individual means repentance on the part of those who are consumed with evil; its wandering through dry places and not finding rest means that this is what leading a good life feels like for such people; the house that the spirit finds empty and decorated for itself and therefore reenters means that within themselves and their will such people have no goodness; the seven spirits it recruits and with whom it returns mean the evil that becomes joined to their good actions; and their last state being worse than their first means profanation. This is the inner meaning of the words, for the Lord spoke by means of correspondences.
The meaning of the Lord's words to the man he healed at the pool of Bethesda is much the same: "See, you have been made well. Do not sin anymore, or else something worse than before may come upon you" (John 5:14). There is this statement as well: "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them" (John 12:40). Their turning and being healed would involve the profanation that happens when truth and goodness are acknowledged and then rejected. This, as just noted, would have happened if Jews had turned and been healed.
[3] The fate of profaners in the other life is the worst of all, since the good and true things that they have acknowledged stay with them, as does what is evil and false, and because these cling to each other their life is torn apart: 571, 582, 6348. That is why the Lord takes the greatest possible care to prevent our committing profanation: 2426, 10287. That is why we are kept far from acknowledgment and faith unless we can remain devoted to them to the end of our lives: 3398, 3402. That is why it is sometimes better for us to be kept in ignorance and in outward worship: 301, 302, 303, 1327, 1328. If we have acknowledged and accepted any goodness and truth in the meanwhile, the Lord hides it away in our deeper reaches: 6595.
[4] To prevent profanation, deeper truths are not revealed until the church is at its end: 3398, 3399. That is why the Lord came into the world and opened deeper truths at a time when the church was utterly in ruins: 3398. See what has been cited on this subject in the booklet Last Judgment Babylon Destroyed 73-74.
[5] In the Word, "Babylon" means the profanation of goodness and "Chaldea" means the profanation of truth: 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1321, 1322, 1326. The general categories of profanation correspond to "the degrees of forbidden relations," 2or detestable types of adultery, listed in the Word: 6348. In the Israelite and Jewish church 3profanation was represented by "eating blood" [Genesis 9:4], which is why that was so strictly forbidden: 1003.
Footnotes:
1. On problematic material in Swedenborg's works, including his attitude toward Jews, see the discussion in the translator's preface, pages 19-21. [Editors]
2. As noted in the section cited from Secrets of Heaven, the allusion is to the prohibitions on various incestuous relationships issued inLeviticus 18:6-24. [GFD]
3. The terms "the Israelite church" and "the Jewish church" in Swedenborg's usage refer to the Judaism of biblical times as the third in a grand sequence of five "churches" (see note 3 in New Jerusalem 4). In this view, the earthly life and death of Jesus Christ marked the end of ancient Judaism's, and the beginning of Christianity's, role as "the church. " [JSR]
172. Not translated.
172. Concerning profanity and profanation, spoken of above in the Doctrine, at Arcana Coelestia 169. Profanation is a commingling with a man, of good and evil, and also of truth and falsity, Arcana Coelestia 6348. None other can profane goods and truths, that is, the holy things of the Church and of the Word, except those who first acknowledge them, believe them, and still more live according to them, and afterwards decline from faith, do not believe the above things, and live for themselves and the world, Arcana Coelestia 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3898, 4289, 4601, 10284, 10287. He who in youth believes truths, and afterwards does not believe them, commits profanation slightly; but he who afterwards confirms himself in truths, and then denies them, commits profanation grievously, Arcana Coelestia 6959, 6963, 6971. They who believe truths, and live badly, also commit profanation; likewise they who do not believe truths, and lead a holy life, Arcana Coelestia 8882. If a man after repentance of heart relapses into his former evils, he commits profanation, and then his latter state is worse than the former, Arcana Coelestia 8394. Those who in the Christian world defile the holy things of the Word by unclean thoughts and speeches, commit profanation, Arcana Coelestia 4050, 5390. There are various kinds of profanation, Arcana Coelestia 10287.
Those who have not acknowledged holy things, cannot profane them, still less those who are not acquainted with them, Arcana Coelestia 1008, 1010, 1059, 9188, 10287. Those who are within the Church are capable of profaning holy things, but not those who are outside of it, Arcana Coelestia 2051. Because the Gentiles are outside the Church, and have not the Word, they cannot commit profanation, Arcana Coelestia 1327, 1328, 2051. Neither can the Jews profane the holy interior things of the Word and the Church, because they do not acknowledge them, Arcana Coelestia 6963. Wherefore interior truths were not disclosed to the Jews; for if they had been disclosed and acknowledged [by them], they would have profaned them, Arcana Coelestia 3398, 3479, 6963. Profanation is meant by the Words of the Lord quoted above at no. 169, "When the unclean spirit goeth out of a man, he passeth through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first" (Matthew 12:43-45). By the unclean spirit going out of a man, is signified the repentance of him who is in evil; his passing through dry places and not finding any rest signifies, that the life of good to such a person is of that quality; the house into which he returns, and which he finds empty, swept, and garnished, signifies the man himself and his will, as being without good; the seven spirits which he takes to himself and with whom he returns, signify evil conjoined to good - his [new] state then being worse than his former [state], signifies profanation: this is the internal sense of these words, for the Lord spoke by correspondences. The same thing is meant by the words of the Lord to him whom He cured at the pool of Bethesda, "Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing came unto thee than before" (John 5:14). As well as, by these words of the Lord, "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them" (John 12:40); where being converted and healed, signifies committing profanation, which takes place when truth and good are acknowledged, and afterwards rejected; this would have taken place, if the Jews had been converted and healed, as was stated above.
The lot of profaners in the other life is the worst of all, because the good and truth which they acknowledged remains, and also the evil and falsity; and since they cohere, there ensues a tearing asunder of the life, Arcana Coelestia 571, 582, 6348. Wherefore the Lord provides most carefully against the commission of profanation, Arcana Coelestia 2426, 10287. A man therefore is withheld from acknowledgment and faith, if he cannot remain therein to the end of his life, Arcana Coelestia 3398, 3402. On this account also a man is rather kept in ignorance and in external worship, Arcana Coelestia 301-303, 1327, 1328. The Lord also hides away in a man's interiors the goods and truths which he has accepted by acknowledgment, Arcana Coelestia 6595.
Lest interior truths should be profaned, they are not revealed before the Church is at its end, Arcana Coelestia 3398, 3399. Wherefore the Lord came into the world, and laid open interior truths, when the Church was wholly vastated, Arcana Coelestia 3398. See what has been adduced on this subject in the work on The Last Judgment and the Destruction of Babylon 73, 74.
Babel, in the Word, signifies the profanation of good, and Chaldea, the profanation of truth, Arcana Coelestia 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326. These profanations correspond to the prohibited degrees, that is, to the foul adulteries, spoken of in the Word, Arcana Coelestia 6348. Profanation was represented in the Israelitish and Jewish Church by eating blood; wherefore this was so severely prohibited, Arcana Coelestia 1003.
172. Of the Profane and Profanation, spoken of above at (n. 169).
Profanation is a commixture of good and evil, as also of truth and falsity in man (n. 6348). None can profane goods and truths, or the holy things of the church and the Word, except those who first acknowledge, believe, and still more live according to them, and afterwards recede from and do not believe, and who live to themselves and the world (n. 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3399, 3898, 4289, 4601, 8394, 10287). He who believes truths in his childhood, and afterwards does not believe them, profanes lightly; but he who confirms truths in himself and after that denies them, profanes grievously (n. 6959, 6963, 6971). They who believe truths, and live evilly, commit profanation; as also they who do not believe truths and live holily (n. 8882). If man, after repentance of heart, relapses to his former evils, he profanes, and then his latter state is worse than his former (n. 8394). Those in the Christian world who defile the holy things of the Word by unclean thoughts and discourses, profane (n. 4050, 5390). There are various kinds of profanation (n. 10287).
They who do not acknowledge holy things cannot profane them, still less they who do not know them (n. 1008, 1010, 1059, 9188, 10287). They who are within the church, can profane holy things, but not they who are out of it (n. 2051). The Gentiles, because out of the church, and who do not have the Word, cannot profane (n. 1327, 1328, 2051, 9021). Neither can the Jews profane the holy interior things of the Word and the church, because they do not acknowledge them (n. 6963). Therefore interior truths were not revealed to the Jews, for if they had been revealed and acknowledged, they would have profaned them (n. 3398, 3479, 6963). Profanation is meant by the words of the Lord above quoted at n. 169:
When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, but finding none; then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I went out; and when he comes and finds it empty, and swept, and garnished, then he goes away, and takes to himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in they dwell there, and the latter things of the man become worse than the first (Matt. 12:43-45).
"The unclean spirit going out of a man," signifies the repentance of him who is in evil; his "walking through dry places and not finding rest" signifies that to such a person, a life of good is of that quality; "the house" into which he returned, and which he found empty, swept, and garnished, signifies the man himself, and his will, as being without good. "The seven spirits" which he took to himself and with whom he returned, signify evil conjoined to good; "his state then being worse than his former," signifies profanation. This is the internal sense of these words, for the Lord spoke by correspondences. The same thing is meant by the words of the Lord to the man whom He healed in the Pool of Bethesda:
Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (John 5:14).
Also by these words of the Lord:
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them (John 12:40).
"To be converted and healed," signifies to profane, which takes place when truth and good are acknowledged, and afterwards rejected, which would have been the case if the Jews had been converted and healed.
The lot of profaners in the other life is the worst of all, because the good and truth which they have acknowledged remain, and also the evil and falsity; and because they cohere, a tearing asunder of the life takes place (n. 571, 582, 6348). The greatest care is therefore taken by the Lord, to prevent profanation (n. 2426, 10287). Therefore man is withheld from acknowledgment and faith, if he cannot remain therein to the end of life (n. 3398, 3402). On this account also man is rather kept in ignorance, and in external worship (n. 301-303, 1327, 1328). The Lord also stores up the goods and truths which man has received by acknowledgment, in his interiors (n. 6595).
Lest interior truths should be profaned, they are not revealed before the church is at its end (n. 3398, 3399). Wherefore the Lord came into the world, and opened interior truths, when the church was wholly vastated (n. 3398). See what is adduced on this subject in the work on The Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed (n. 73, 74).
In the Word "Babel" signifies the profanation of good, and "Chaldea," the profanation of truth (n. 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326). These profanations correspond to the prohibited degrees, or foul adulteries, spoken of in the Word (n. 6348). Profanation was represented in the Israelitish and Jewish church by eating blood, wherefore this was so severely prohibited (n. 1003).
172. De Profano et Profanatione (de qua supra, 169, in Doctrina).
Quod profanatio sit commixtio boni et mali, tum veri et falsi apud hominem (Arcana Coelestia 6348).
Quod profanare bona et vera, seu sancta ecclesiae et Verbi, non possint alii quam qui primum agnoscunt illa, credunt illa, et magis si vivunt secundum illa, ac postea recedunt a fide, non credunt illa, et vivunt sibi et mundo (Arcana Coelestia 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3399, 3898, 4289, 4601, 10284, [8394?], 10287).
Quod qui in pueritia credit vera, et postea non credit, leviter profanet; at quod qui vera apud se postea confirmat, et dein illa negat, graviter profanet (Arcana Coelestia 6960, 6963, 6971, [6959?],.
Quod etiam profanent qui credunt vera et vivunt male; tum qui non credunt vera, et vivunt sancte (Arcana Coelestia 8082 (8882).
Quod homo, si post paenitentiam cordis ad mala priora relabitur, profanet, et quod tunc status ejus posterior sit pejor priori (Arcana Coelestia 8394).
Quod qui in Christiano orbe conspurcant sancta Verbi per immundas cogitationes et loquelas, profanent (Arcana Coelestia 4050, 5390).
Quod varia genera profanationum sint (Arcana Coelestia 10287).
Quod illi sancta profanare non possint qui non agnoverunt illa, minus qui non sciunt illa (Arcana Coelestia 1008, 1010, 2059, 9188, 10284, [10287?],).
Quod qui intra ecclesiam sunt, profanare sancta possint, non autem qui extra (Arcana Coelestia 2051).
Quod gentes, quia extra ecclesiam, et non habent Verbum, non profanare possint (Arcana Coelestia 1327, 1328, 2051, 2081, [9021?],.
Quod nec Judaei sancta interiora Verbi et ecclesiae, quia non agnoscunt illa (Arcana Coelestia 6963).
Quod ideo Judaeis nec detecta fuerint interiora vera, nam si detecta et agnita, profanavissent illa (Arcana Coelestia 3398, 3489, [3479?], 6963).
Profanatio intelligitur per Domini verba supra (169) allata, nempe,
"Quando..immundus spiritus exit ab homine, perambulat arentia loca, quaerens requiem, sed non invenit; tunc dixit, Revertar in domum meam, unde exivi; cumque venit et reperit illam vacuam, et scopis purgatam et ornatam sibi, tunc abit et adjungit sibi septem alios spiritus pejores se et ingressi habitant ibi; et fiunt posteriora hominis pejora primis" (Matthaeus 12:43-45).
Per quod "exeat immundus spiritus ab homine," intelligitur paenitentia illius qui in malo est; per quod "perambulet arentia loca, et non inveniat requiem," intelligitur quod vita boni ei talis sit; per "domum," in quam, quia reperit vacuam et sibi ornatam, revertitur, intelligitur ipse homo et ejus voluntas, quod sit absque bono; per "septem spiritus" quos sibi adjungit, et cum quibus revertitur, intelligitur malum conjunctum bono; per "statum ejus tunc pejorem priori," intelligitur profanatio: hic sensus est sensus internus horum verborum, nam Dominus per correspondentias locutus est. Simile intelligitur per Domini verba ad illum quem sanavit in piscina Bethesda,
"Ecce sanus factus es; ne pecca amplius, ne fiat tibi aliquid quod pejus est quam prius" (Johannes 5:14);
Tum per haec verba,
"Occaecavit oculos eorum, et obduravit corda eorum, ne videant oculis et intelligant corde, et se convertant et sanem eos" (Johannes 12:40):
"se convertere et sanari" est profanare, quod fit cum agnoscuntur vera et bona, et dein rejiciuntur: ita fuisset si Judaei se converterint et sanati fuissent, ut supra dictum est.
Quod sors profanatorum in altera vita omnium pessima sit, quoniam bonum et verum, quae agnoverunt, manent, et quoque malum et falsum; et quia cohaerent fit discerptio vitae (Arcana Coelestia 571, 582, 6348).
Quod ideo a Domino maxime provideatur ne fiat profanatio (Arcana Coelestia 2426, 10384 (10287)).
Quod homo idcirco detineatur ab agnitione et fide, si non ad finem vitae in illis permanere possit (Arcana Coelestia 3398, 4402, [3402?],).
Quod ideo homo teneatur potius in ignorantia, et in cultu externo (Arcana Coelestia 301-303, 1327, 1328).
Quod etiam Dominus vera et bona, quae homo per agnitionem recepit, recondat in interioribus ejus (Arcana Coelestia 6595).
Quod interiora vera, ne profanentur, non prius revelentur quam cum ecclesia in suo fine est (Arcana Coelestia 3398, 3399).
Quapropter Dominus tunc in mundum venit, ac interiora vera aperuit, cum ecclesia prorsus vastata fuit (Arcana Coelestia 3398; videantur quae de his in opusculo De Ultimo Judicio et Babylonia destructa, 73, 74, allata sunt).
Quod per "Babelem" in Verbo significetur profanatio boni, et per "Chaldaeam" profanatio veri (Arcana Coelestia 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326).
Quod gradibus prohibitis, seu foedis adulteriis, de quibus in Verbo, profanationes illae correspondeant (Arcana Coelestia 6348).
Quod profanatio repraesentata sit per esum sanguinis in Ecclesia Israelitica et Judaica, quapropter id tam severe prohibitum fuit (Arcana Coelestia 1003)