5. It is to be clearly shown that without the Lord's Advent, no one could have been regenerated, and hence saved; and that this is meant by "the Lamb taking away the sins of the world." This may be evident from the state of the spiritual world before the Lord's coming; which was such that not any truth of faith nor good of charity could pass from the Lord to man. (This is to be illustrated by the influx of truth and good into evil spirits, into the hinder part of their heads, etc.).