694. And thine anger is come, and the time of the dead to be judged.- That this signifies the last judgment upon those who interiorly possess in themselves nothing of good and truth, is evident from the signification of anger, as meaning in reference to the Lord, a last judgment (concerning which see above n. 413); that this is signified here by anger is clear, for the words, "and the time of the dead, to be judged" follow; and from the signification of the dead, as denoting those who interiorly possess in themselves nothing of good and truth. Such are called dead, because the very life of man is his spiritual life, for through this he is a man, and is distinguished from the beasts, which have only a natural life. In man the natural life without the spiritual life is dead, since it has not heaven in itself, which is called life and also eternal life, but hell, which is spiritually called death. That those who live a natural life merely, and not at the same time a spiritual life, are meant by the dead in the Word, may be seen above (n. 78). That death, when spoken of man, means a lack of ability to understand truth and perceive good, may also be seen above (n. 550); and this defect exists when the internal spiritual man has not been formed, for this is formed by means of truths from good. In this internal man resides the faculty of understanding truth and of perceiving good, for this man is in heaven and in the light thereof, and he who is in the light of heaven is a living man. But when the natural man only has been formed, and not at the same time the spiritual, then there is no faculty of understanding and perceiving the truths and goods of heaven and of the church, because such a man has no light from heaven; for this reason such a man is called dead. That those who do not interiorly possess in themselves anything of good and truth are here meant by the dead who are to be judged, is evident also from what has been said before about the separation of the evil from the good before the Last Judgment, and from this, that the evil, when they have been separated, come into their interiors, which abound in mere evils and falsities; this makes it clear, that interiorly they were dead, although in the external form they appeared to be living.

6351. Verses 5-7 Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is hard. ¹ I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. 'Simeon and Levi are brothers' means faith in the will and charity, but here the opposite since faith separated from charity is meant. 'Instruments of violence are their swords' means that religious teachings serve to destroy charitable deeds, thus charity itself. 'Into their secret place let my soul not come means that spiritual good has no wish to know the evil intentions of their will. 'In their congregation let not my glory be united' means that neither does the truth of spiritual good have any wish to know the resulting false ideas constituting their thought. 'For in their anger they killed a man' means that they felt utterly averse, and having that feeling they annihilated faith. 'And in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox' means that motivated by a wicked will they crippled completely the external good of charity. 'Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce' means an utter aversion to good and consequent damnation. 'And their wrath, for it is hard' means an aversion to the truth that is derived from good - a firm and determined aversion. 'I will divide them in Jacob' means that they are to be banished from the natural man. 'And will scatter them in Israel' means that they are to be banished from the spiritual man.

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