82. Those who read the Word without doctrine - those who cannot avoid falling into many fallacies from the sense of the letter, which is in accordance with appearances in man's sight, and who have at the same time absorbed many falsities and convinced themselves of them, and who at the same time are consequently proud of their own intelligence - these produce adultery as of a father with his daughter-in-law.

5067. There are also those who do not bother at all about the doctrine of the Church, but only about the Word in its literal sense, which they turn to whatever particular belief they desire and to whatever evil they favor. These are those who in bodily life have placed merit in works. When the goodness of caring concern flows into them from heaven, they then turn the inflow into foul adultery with daughters-in-law. Such things are symbolized [in the Word] by adulteries with daughters-in-law; and because the Jews were such, they are therefore described as originating from adultery with a daughter-in-law.