Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 78

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78. 'And that thou canst not bear them who are evil' signifies that they do not support saying evils are goods, and the reverse, because this is against the truths of doctrine. That this is signified by those words is plain from the things just following, by which is signified that they investigate the things in the Church that are said to be good and true, when yet they are evil and untrue. To know goods, whether they are good or evil, is of doctrine, and is among its truths, whereas to do goods or evils is of life. This therefore is said of those who have the truths of doctrine primarily in view, and not the goods of life (n. 73). By 'them that are evil' in the spiritual sense is not understood evil men but evils, because that sense is abstracted from persons.


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