2546. 'What have you done to us, and what sin have I committed against you?' means reproving Himself for having thought in this fashion. This becomes clear from the emotion and the strong feeling which these words contain, referred to just above in 2543, on account of the fact that the rational and the factual wished to rise up and enter in, and in so doing to share in the doctrine of faith, which is Divine.

1260. Since 'nations' in the Most Ancient Church and in the Ancient Church meant goods or good persons, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean evils or evil persons Similarly with 'peoples'; since these meant truths, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean falsities. For in a corrupted Church good is turned into evil, and truth into falsity, as a consequence of which the meaning of nations and peoples in that contrary sense occurs many times in the Word, as in Isaiah 13:4; 14:6; 18:2, 7; 30:28; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 20:13; and in many other places.