4697. CONCERNING A CERTAIN GENTILE, WHO WAS DEEPLY AGITATED BY THE WORD. I had written about Esau and Jacob, Gen. chap. 27; no. 3509 [Arcana Coelestia], and, then, a Gentile, when he heard that there were so indefinite things in the Word, and that there are infinite or Divine things, was so moved thereby, that his emotion was perceived to be from an internal ground. I heard, also, how he lamented, from interior [affection] that, in the world, he had not heard such things, and that yet he had thought that such a Divine [production] must be somewhere; and that if he had been aware of this, he would have fled from his native country to that place where such a Word, or such a Divine [production], was; and, as he was so much agitated, he was told, that, in the state where he now is, he can enjoy it, and be informed about those things, like the infants who are in heaven. But he said, lamenting, that he might not be able to receive it, because, perhaps, in the life of the body, he was not in love towards the neighbor as he ought to have been. Of such a quality are many Gentiles. He was received by the angels.