2393. 'Place' is a state of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'place' as state, dealt with in 1273-1275, 1377, here a state of evil, since the place was Sodom, by which evil in general is meant, 2220, 2246, 2322.

2321. As regards judgement belonging to the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding, let it be said that unless the Lord had come into the world and had united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence it would no longer have been possible for the human race to be saved. But for the Lord's Human made Divine, salvation could not have reached anyone any more, 1990, 2016, 2034, 2035. The Holy itself proceeding from the Lord's Divine Human is that which separates the evil from the good; for the evil so fear and dread the Lord's Holy [proceeding] that they cannot go near it but flee far away from it into their own hells, each one doing so according to the profanity within him.