363. WHO THE "DRAWERS OF WATER" ARE Those who, without true faith, suppose from the Word that they merit heaven from having labored in the vineyard, or having preached and taught, and hence suppose that they merit salvation, are vastated by corresponding phantasies in the other life; but principally by this, that they seem to themselves to carry water from ponds, or from the sea by which they are surrounded, and to pour it into a trough so that a flock may drink. When the trough is filled, they rest until they again draw. The trough is filled until the water overflows. It seemed indeed as though a flock would come and drink: but whether a flock does appear to them cannot yet be confirmed. 1747, Dec. 18.