Apocalypse Explained #621
621. And it was in my mouth sweet as honey.- That this signifies that the Word, as to its external sense or sense of the letter, was still perceived as the delight of good, but delightful only because of its serving to confirm principles of falsity and the loves of evil, or principles springing from the love of self and the love of the world, all of which are falsities. That therefore the Word, which is meant by the little book, was perceived as sweet as honey, has been shown above.
Mark 7:18-21
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He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
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because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
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He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
