4701. Moreover, he was also expert in repelling from himself genuine exterior good and truth, lest it should hurt him: which he was able to do, because he possessed good appearing outwardly as genuine. But he was unable [to possess] genuine interior good. All these things were seen, or perceived, to the life: and it was observed, before he was exposed, that he was not able to adopt truths in thought, because he repelled those which inflowed.