241. (Vers. 7.) "Et Animal primum simile Leoni," significat Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam. - Quod "Leo" significet Verum in sua potentia, hic Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam, constare potest a potentia leonis prae omni animali terrae, tum ex leonibus in mundo spirituali, quod sint imagines repraesentivae potentiae Divini Veri; et quoque ex Verbo ubi significant Divinum Verum in sua potentia; qualis potentia Divini Veri in Verbo est, videatur in Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Scriptura Sacra 49, et in Opere de Caelo et Inferno 228-233; inde est, quod Jehovah seu Dominus comparetur "Leoni," et quoque dicatur "Leo," ut in sequentibus:

"Leo rugit, quis non timeat; Dominus Jehovih ¹ locutus est, quis non prophetet," (Amos 3:8);

"Non revertar ad perdendum Ephraimum, post Jehovam ibunt, sicut Leo rugit," (Hoschea 11:9-10); ²

"Quemadmodum rugit Leo, et juvenis Leo, sic descendet Jehovah ad militandum super monte Zionis," (Esaias 31:4).

"Ecce vicit Leo, Qui est ex tribu Jehudae, Radix Davidis," (Apocalypsis 5:5);

"Catulus Leonis Jehudah, curvavit se, cubuit sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Genesis 49:9);

in his locis describitur potentia Divini Veri, quod a Domino, per "leonem;" "significat ex potentia loqui et agere contra inferna, quae auferre volunt hominem, a quibus Dominus illum eripit, sicut leo praedam; "curvare se" est se mittere in potentiam; "Jehudah" in supremo Sensu significat Dominum, (96, 266).

"Angelus clamavit voce magna sicut Leo rugit," (Apocalypsis 10:3);

"Incurvat se, cubat sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Numeri 24:9);

En populos sicut vetus Leo surgit, et sicut juvenis ³ Leo effert se," (Numeri 23:24); ⁴

haec de Israele, per quem significatur Ecclesia cujus potentia, quae in Divinis veris est, ita describitur; similiter,

"Reliquiae Jacobi in medio populorum erunt sicut Leo inter bestias sylvae, sicut Leo juvenis inter greges ovium," ⁵ (Micham 5:7 (B.A. 8)). ⁶

(Praeter in multis aliis locis, ut Esaias 11:6; 21:6-9; 35:9; Jeremias 2:15; 4:7; 5:6; 12:8; 50:17; 51:38; ⁷ Ezechiel 19:3, 5-6; Hoschea 13:7-8; Joel 1:6-7; Nahum 2:12; Psalm. 17:12; Psalm. 22:14 (B.A. 13) Psalm. 57:5 (B.A. 4); Psalm. 58:7 (B.A. 6); ⁸ Psalm. 91:13; Psalm. 104:21-22; Deuteronomius 33:20).

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In the Word three terms are used to refer to bad actions: transgression, iniquity, and sin. Transgression is the least bad. It means a violation of what is true in an external context, a violation of what is right and orderly. Iniquity is next and denotes acts that violate more interior truths. Sin is the worst. It is a violation of what is holy and righteous, a violation against the Lord. Sin is the deepest kind of evil. Regarding iniquity -- to be in charity, or live a life of charity is to live a life where the acts and thoughts that have top priority are those that have within them a love for the neighbor. Sometimes our love of self, our inborn desire to put ourselves first, is stronger than our charity and we do something for ourselves at the expense of our neighbor, or even do harm to our neighbor. Such an act, if our motive is selfish, is an iniquity.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 9156, 9965 [2-3])