Verse 15. The desire to do good is not to be condemned because what is evil or mistaken may proceed from it; nor are truths themselves to be condemned (per se) though they may be professed and cherished from an imperfect motive: guilt is imputed to man when it proceeds from the will and understanding together, and is made his own by actual commission.

4128. 'And Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain' means a state of love, the state in which the good now meant by 'Jacob' dwelt. This is clear from the meaning of 'tent' as the holiness of love, dealt with in 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, and of 'pitching a tent' as the state involving that love; and from the meaning of 'the mountain' as good, as above in 4117, here the good meant now by 'Jacob', see above in 4073.