382. 'Neither shall the sun fall upon them nor any heat' signifies that henceforth they shall not have a lusting after evil nor after the untruth of evil. 'The sun shall not fall upon them' signifies that they shall not have a lusting after evil; 'nor shall any heat fall upon them' signifies that they shall not have a lusting after untruth. That 'the sun' signifies Divine Love and the resultant affections of good therefrom, and in the opposite sense diabolical love and the resultant lustings after evil, may be seen above (n. 53); but 'heat' signifies lustings after the untruth of evil, because untruth is produced out of evil as heat from the sun; for when the will loves evil the understanding loves untruth, and is hot from the lust of confirming it, and confirmed evil in the understanding is untruth of evil. Untruth of evil consequently is evil in its own form. 'Heat' and 'to be hot' signify similar things in the following passages:-
Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, he shall not see when heat comes Jer. xvii 7, 8.
Thou hast become a refuge to the needy from inundation, shadow, and heat; He tempers the heat by the shadow of the cloud Isa. xxv 4, 5.
When they are hot, I will make them drunken, that they may sleep the sleep of an age Jer. li 39.
They are all hot as an oven, none among them calling unto Me Hosea vii 7.
He does not behold the way of the vineyards, drought and heat shall seize the waters of the snow Job xxiv 18, 19.
The fourth angel poured out the phial upon the sun, and it was given unto him to scorch men with great heat, and they blasphemed the Name of God Rev. xvi 8, 9.
To say to the bound, Go forth; they shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat smite them Isa. xlix 9, 10.
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