Arcana Coelestia #2313
2313. The first state of that Church: people have the good of charity and acknowledge the Lord; and from Him they are strengthened in good, verses 1-3, and are saved, verse 12. The second state: with those people evils start to react against goods, but they are powerfully withheld from evils and maintained in goods by the Lord, verses 14-16; their helplessness is described, verse 18; they are saved, verse 19. The third state: they no longer think and act from an affection for good but from an affection for truth, verses 18-20; and they are saved, verse 23. The fourth state: the affection for truth perishes, meant by Lot's wife becoming a pillar of salt, verse 26. The fifth state: impure good, or good enveloped in falsity, supersedes, meant by Lot in the mountain-cave, verse 30. The sixth state: even this good is adulterated and falsified further still, verses 31-33, and truth equally so, verses 34-35. From this some semblance of a Church is conceived and born, whose good, so-called, is Moab, and whose truth, also so-called, is the son of Ammon, verses 36-38.
Genesis 19:1-3
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The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
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and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
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He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
