337. [verse 15] 'And the kings of the land and the great men and the rich men and the rulers of thousands and the mighty men and every bondman and every freeman' signifies those who before the separation were in an understanding of truth and good, in a knowledge of the cognitions thereof, and in erudition, from others or from themselves, and yet were not in a life in accordance with them. That all the latter things are signified by the former in their order no one can know except one who knows what is signified in the spiritual sense by 'kings', 'great men', 'rich men', 'rulers of thousands', 'mighty men', 'the bondman and the freeman'. In the spiritual sense by 'kings' are signified those who are in truths, by 'great men' those who are in goods, by 'rich men' those who are in cognitions of truth, by 'rulers of thousands' those who are in cognitions of good, by 'mighty men' those who are in erudition, by 'bondmen' those who are in such things by derivation from others, thus from memory, by 'freemen' those who are in such things from themselves, thus from judgment. To confirm out of the Word that those things are signified by all these names would, however, take far too long. It has been shown before what 'kings' signify (n. 20), also 'rich men' (n. 206) what 'great men' signify is plain from Jer. v 5; Nahum iii 10; Jonah iii 7; for 'great' is predicated of good (n. 896, 898). That 'mighty men', as well as 'bondmen' and 'freemen', are those who are in erudition, from others or from themselves, will be seen below. It is said, those who were in those things and yet not in a life in accordance with them, for bad men, even the worst, can be in a knowledge and in an understanding of cognitions of truth and good, and also in much erudition, but because they are not in a life in accordance with them, they are not actually in them; for what is only in the understanding, and not at the same time in the life, is not in a man; it is outside of him as in an entrance hall. But what is at the same time in the life is in the man; it is within him as in the house. Therefore the latter are preserved and the former rejected.