622. The relationship of corruption to delusions can be seen in Isaiah:
They will not do evil or practice corruption anywhere on my holy mountain, because the earth will be full of knowledge from Jehovah. (Isaiah 11:9; parallel in 65:25)
The doing of evil is associated with the will, or cravings, while the practicing of corruption is associated with the intellect, or persuasive lies. In the same author:
Doom to a sinning nation, to a people weighed down with wickedness, to the seed of evildoers, to children who corrupt! (Isaiah 1:4)
Here as elsewhere the non-Jewish nations and the seed of evildoers stand for evil, which is a matter of will or desire, while the people and the children who corrupt stand for falsities, which are a matter of intellect or self-deception. In Ezekiel:
More corrupt are you than they, in all your ways. (Ezekiel 16:47)
Corruption in this verse has to do with the things we understand, reason over, or think about, since way is a word symbolizing truth. In David:
They did a corrupt thing, and they made a heinous thing of their work. (Psalms 14:1)
The corrupt thing stands for appalling delusions and the heinous thing for unclean longings, which lay within their work, or from which it sprang. In Daniel:
After sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off, and he will have nothing; and the people of a leader yet to come will corrupt the city and the sanctuary, and its end will come in a flood. (Daniel 9:26)
Again the practicing of corruption or destruction stands for persuasive lies, which are described as a flood.
