163. That the Lord carried sins, signifies that He endured the hells and properly that He represented the falsities and the evils of the church, for the representatives are many, especially those which belong to His passion (which may be enumerated, and confirmed by those things which the Prophets underwent and whereby they represented the church; which, on account of their number, need not be adduced; it is there said of Isaiah that he carried sins, Isa. 20:3). That thus, also, they are taken away, is an arcanum which may be explained; here, by temptations admitted into himself, etc.