3870. 'That I was hated' means the state of faith if there is no will corresponding to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'hated' as not loved, for this is the state of faith if the will does not correspond to it. The subject in the internal sense is the advance of a person's regeneration from what is external to what is internal, that is, from the truth of faith towards the good of charity. Truth which is the truth of faith is external, and good which is the good of charity is internal. So that it may be living, truth which is the truth of faith must be introduced into the will so as to receive life there. For truth which issues from knowledge is not living, only truth which issues from the will. Through the new will which the Lord creates in man life flows in from Him. The life which comes first manifests itself in obedience, this being the first degree of the will. The life which comes second manifests itself in the affection for doing what is true, this being a more advanced degree of the will, which is arrived at when delight and blessing are felt in the doing of what is true. Unless faith advances in this way truth does not become truth but something separated from life. Sometimes it becomes the corroboration of falsity, sometimes persuasive belief, and so something debased, for it couples itself to man's evil affection or desire, that is, to the will that is properly his own and the reverse of charity. Such is the faith which is believed to be true faith by many at the present day; they believe that this faith is able - of itself, without the works of charity - to save a person.

[2] But this faith - that is to say, faith separated from charity and therefore contrary to charity - is represented later on by Reuben's lying with Bilhah his father's concubine, Genesis 35:22, and by the expression of disgust by Jacob, who by then was named Israel, in the following words,

Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my power. Unstable as water, may you not excel, for you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch. Genesis 49:3-4.

Also described in that chapter, by means of Simeon and Levi, is the contrariety to charity of the will and affection that go with this faith, namely faith separated from charity, in the following words,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their assembly let not my glory be united; for in their fury they killed a man, and in their wilfulness they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their fury, for it is fierce, and their anger, for it is severe. I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

That faith separated from charity is described in this case by Simeon and Levi will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown later on.

37. And every eye shall see him. That this signifies, that all who are in truths from good will acknowledge Him, is evident from the signification of seeing, as denoting to understand, to perceive, and to acknowledge (concerning which see Arcana Coelestia 2150, 2325, 2807, 3764, 3863, 3869, 4723, 10705); and from the signification of the eye, as denoting understanding and faith (concerning which see Arcana Coelestia 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4594, 9051, 10569); consequently those who are in truths from good, for these have faith and thence understanding. That the eye signifies understanding and faith is from correspondence; for the understanding is internal sight, and it is this sight which sees by means of the eye, since the understanding directs the eye to its objects, and disposes its many interior parts for reception. This is why the iris and pupil are at one time dilated, at another contracted, now obscure, now lucid, sometimes sparkling, entirely according to the desire and affection of the understanding. For this reason the affection of the thought may, in a measure, be known from the eye. It is from this correspondence that the eye signifies the understanding. The reason why the eye signifies faith also is, because the truths of faith are only in the understanding; the truths that are not there are not in the man (as may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 28-36). That the eye, in the spiritual sense, denotes faith, arises from the way in which the Lord is seen by the angels from aspect; for they turn the faces continually to Him, and see Him by faith and understanding (concerning this turning, see in the work, Heaven and Hell 123, 142, 143, 145, 151, 153, 255, 272, 510).