4777. 'Joseph has been torn to pieces' means that falsities render that truth entirely non-existent. This is clear from the meaning of 'being torn to pieces' as being scattered by falsities, or what amounts to the same, falsities rendering it entirely non-existent. They are falsities arising from evils, that is, from evil desires, that are meant here, 4770. Regarding these desires, see what has been stated immediately above in 4776.