A kind of punishment that their worst undergo was shown to me. They are held as if in a tub, so bound up that they cannot move themselves at all. Meanwhile, they are troubled by dreadful fantasies about their own imprisonment, and a longing is aroused to come forth from their bonds. This being futile, the longing is joined by anxiety and torment, and they are told that they must bear these things until they have paid everything, even to "the last farthing" [Matt. 5:26]. Even so, they are set free. The appearance of their face was brought before me, and it was ugly, and as if it had been torn apart. This punishment corresponds to both of the fantasies of the hellish crowd, that of being in a kind of tub [285-86], and also that of punishment by a veil, spoken about earlier [534-35]. It is said that they are then tormented miserably; but they were told that if they had paid the very last farthing, it would have taken forever. It was for this reason that the One Only Lord bore the cruelest tortures on our earth, in order that they may thus be freed, when yet they have borne this for only a dot of time.