95. 'And affliction and poverty' signifies that they are in untruths, and consequently not in goods. To know their 'affliction' signifies to see that they are in untruths, and to know their 'poverty' signifies to see that they are not in goods; for in the Word 'affliction' is predicated of untruths, as above (n. 33), and 'poverty' of things not good, spiritual poverty being nothing else. In the Word one often reads of 'the poor and the needy', and by 'poor' in the spiritual sense is understood one who is not in truths, while by 'needy' one who is not in goods. There are also added the words 'yet thou art rich', but in a parenthesis, and this because in certain codices they have been omitted.