'Look not back behind thee,' as in Genesis 19:17, means that Lot, who represents the good of charity, should not look to matters of doctrine. 'To look up,' is to look to celestial things. In Genesis 18:22, looking signifies thinking because seeing denotes understanding.

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'Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church in good of doctrine and thus in the good of life.

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