Wicked
Swedenborg several times associates the “wicked” with “malevolence,” defines “malevolence” as “destroying good, interior and exterior,” and says that the wicked do this by disowning the desire for good and understanding for good that come from the Lord and actively denying the Lord.
We might say, then, that wickedness is evil on the hunt, looking for all that is good and true specifically so it can attack and destroy it.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 661; Arcana Coelestia 7590, 9249, 9264)
Ephesians 4:9-10
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Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
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He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
