Swedenborg associa più volte i "malvagi" alla "malevolenza", definisce la "malevolenza" come "distruzione del bene, interiore ed esteriore" e dice che i malvagi lo fanno rinnegando il desiderio del bene e la comprensione del bene che vengono dal Signore e negando attivamente il Signore.

Potremmo dire, quindi, che la malvagità è il male a caccia, alla ricerca di tutto ciò che è buono e vero specificamente per poterlo attaccare e distruggere.

(Riferimenti: Apocalisse Spiegata 661; Arcana Coelestia 7590, 9249, 9264)

25. The angels in the Lord's heavenly kingdom far surpass the angels of the spiritual kingdom in regard to wisdom and splendor because they accept the Lord's divine nature on a deeper level. They live in love for him, and are therefore more intimately united to him. ¹ The reason for their excellence is that they have accepted divine truths directly into their lives and continue to do so, rather than taking them into memory and thought first, the way spiritual angels do. This means they have them engraved on their hearts and grasp them, virtually see them, within themselves. They never calculate whether or not they are true. ² They are like the people described in Jeremiah,

I will put my law in their mind and engrave it on their heart: no longer will one person teach a friend or a brother, saying, "Know Jehovah;" from the smallest to the greatest, they will know me. (Jeremiah 31:33-34)

In Isaiah, they are called "the people who have been taught by Jehovah" (Isaiah 54:13). In John 6:45-46, the Lord himself teaches that those who are taught by Jehovah are the ones who are taught by the Lord.

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