When the Jews want to protect anyone in the other life from being harmed by others, they usually cast a veil over them, under which they are safe, and guarded against harm from others, and so are not done violence. Certain ones - but Christians - had been put under such a veil by Jews, so that they would be done no more injury by their own. But those under the veil, complaining that they were not able to breathe, were let go after a time. The reason for this can be deduced: i.e. that those coming from Judaism are safer, being entirely in darkness, like in a thick cloud, than those who are in the light of truth, and yet deny it. This is why the Jews are also kept under the veil continually, during life [in the world].