892. 'And murderers and whoremongers and enchanters and idolaters and [all] liars' signifies all those who make the precepts of the Decalogue of no account and do not flee from any of the evils there mentioned as sins, and therefore live in them. What is signified by the four precepts of the Decalogue that are 'Thou shalt not kill', 'thou shalt not commit adultery', 'thou shalt not steal' and 'thou shalt not bear false witness', in a threefold sense, natural, spiritual and celestial, may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF LIFE FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM (n. 62-91). There is therefore no need to expound them again here. But instead of the seventh precept, which is 'thou shalt not steal', there are mentioned here 'enchanters and idolaters'; and by 'enchanters' are signified those who search for truths, which they falsify so as to confirm untruths and evils, just as those do who take up this truth, that no one can do good from himself, and by means of it confirm faith alone, for this is a kind of spiritual theft. What 'enchantment' is besides may be seen above (n. 462). By 'idolaters' are signified those who establish worship or are in worship derived not from the Word, thus not from the Lord, but from self-intelligence (n. 459), as also