283. All who are in the good of innocence are affected by innocence, and to the extent that anyone is in that good, to that extent he is affected; but those who are not in the good of innocence are not affected by innocence. For this reason, all who are in hell are wholly antagonistic to innocence. They do not know what innocence is. So antagonistic are they that so far as anyone is innocent they burn to do him mischief. Therefore they cannot bear to see little children; as soon as they see them, they are inflamed with a cruel desire to do them harm. From this it is clear that man's proprium, and therefore the love of self, is antagonistic to innocence; for all who are in hell are in their proprium, and therefore in the love of self.## # In the Word a "lamb" signifies innocence and its good (n. 3994, 10132). ## Man's proprium is loving self more than God, and the world more than heaven, and making one's neighbour of no account as compared with oneself; thus it is the love of self and of the world (n. 694, 731, 4317, 5660). The evil are wholly antagonistic to innocence, even to the extent that they cannot endure its presence (n. 2126).