Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7704

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7704. 'And cast them into the Sea Suph' means into hell. This is clear from the meaning of 'the Sea Suph' as hell, explained further on where the passage of the children of Israel through that sea and the destruction of the Egyptians in it is in the Lord's Divine mercy to be dealt with. Being cast into hell should not be taken to mean that the falsity was taken away from the molesters and cast away somewhere else, but that it remained with them and linked them to hells where such things exist. For every state of evil and falsity that the evil in the next life enter links them to the hells where things belonging to that kind of state exist. Consequently they become linked to many hells during a series of stages they pass through before their vastation is completed. But a discussion of these matters from experience is to appear elsewhere.


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