761. [verse 5] 'For her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God has remembered her injustices' signifies that their evils and untruths are infesting the heavens, and that the Lord is going to protect these [heavens] from the violence thence. By her sins having reached even unto the heavens is signified that their evils and untruths are infesting the angels of heaven. By God having remembered her injustices is signified that the Lord is going to protect the heavens from the violence thence. These things are signified by those words because all things in the heavens are goods and truths and all things in the hells are evils and untruths, and consequently the heavens and the hells have been entirely separated and are in an inverted position like the antipodes; and therefore evils and untruths are unable to reach to the heavens. Nevertheless, when evils and untruths are multiplied beyond the degrees of opposition, and thence beyond a just measure, the heavens are infested. And unless the Lord then protects the heavens, which is done by means of a stronger influx from Himself, violence is brought upon the heavens; and when this has reached its height, He then effects a last judgment, and thus they are delivered. On this account it follows on in this chapter (verse 20):-