434. CONCERNING THE VEIL OR THE JEWS: ALSO A KIND OF PUNISHMENT BY THE VEIL In the other life, when the Jews want to protect anyone from injury by others, they are accustomed to throw a veil over them under which they are safe, and so are defended from injury by others, nor are they harmed in this way. Some - but these were Christians - were subjected to such a veil by Jews so that they might no longer be harmed by them, but those under the veil complained that they could not breathe. After a lapse of time they were released. The origin of this can thence be deduced; [namely], that those of the Jews who are altogether obscured and in a dense cloud, are safer than those who are in the light of truth and yet deny; wherefore during their life they are also continually held under a veil.