452. After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude.- That this signifies all those who are in the good of life, according to their religion, in which there are no genuine truths, is clear from this, that the twelve thousand sealed out of every tribe mean those who are of the church, in which there are genuine truths. For the twelve tribes of Israel mean those who are in genuine goods and truths, and in an abstract sense, all the goods and truths of the church. Therefore those now treated of mean those who are in the good of life according to their religion, in which nevertheless there are no genuine truths. That these are meant by a great multitude, is also evident from what follows in this chapter, where it is said that these are they who come out of great tribulation (verse 14), that is, out of temptations. For those who are in the good of life according to their religion, in which there are no genuine truths, undergo temptations in the other life, by means of which the falsities of their religion are dissipated, and genuine truths implanted in their place: but more will be said of this in what follows. It is therefore evident who those are who are meant by the great multitude treated of in what follows to the end of the chapter. It must be remarked that no one, whether within the church where the Word is, or out of that church, who lives a good life according to his religion, is condemned, for it is not their fault that they do not know genuine truths; therefore, because the good of life contains within it the affection of knowing truths, when such come into the other life, they easily receive and drink in truths. It is altogether different with those who have lived an evil life, and made light of religion. But concerning, those who are not in genuine truths, that is, those who are in falsities from ignorance, and yet in the good of life, have been treated of above (n. 107, 195, 356); and in the Heaven and Hell, where the peoples and nations outside the church in heaven are treated of; also in the Arcana Coelestia, as follows: There are falsities of religion which agree with good, and falsities which disagree (n. 9259). Falsities of religion, if they do not disagree with good, do not produce evil, except with those who are in evil (n. 8318). Falsities of religion are not imputed to those who are in good, but to those who are in evil (n. 8051, 8149). Truths not genuine, and also falsities, may be mingled with genuine truths in the case of those who are in good, but not with those who are in evil (n. 3470, 3471, 4551, 4552, 7344, 8149, 9298). Falsities and truths are consociated by appearances from the sense of the letter of the Word (n. 7344). Falsities become like truths (verificentur), and are toned down from good, because applied and made conducive to good, and to the removal of evil (n. 8149). The falsities of religion with those who are in good, are received by the Lord as truths (n. 4736, 8149). The good, which takes its quality from a false principle of religion, is accepted by the Lord, if there be ignorance, and if there be in it innocence and a good end (n. 7887). The truths which man possesses are appearances of truth and good, tinctured with fallacies, but the Lord nevertheless adapts them to genuine truths in the case of a man who lives in good (n. 2053). Falsities in which there is good, exist with those who are outside the church and thence in ignorance of the truth, also with those within the church where there are falsities of doctrine (n. 2589-2604, 2861, 2863, 3263, 3778, 4189, 4190, 4197, 6700, 9256).