132. * These matters can be set forth in many words, by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah, but whether this is the place, I do not yet know. [See also the rest of WE 4605, concluding the explanation of verse 22.]
4620. [Exod. 23:] verses 29 and 30. These words in the more inward meaning signify secrets, namely, as to how a person is reformed. For evil is not driven out all at once, but little by little; and the evil that is clinging to one and has become fixed through acts, is gradually rooted out, and then an opposite, or better, character is put on. Meanwhile, evil is also turned to good, and in the place of evil feelings come good ones, and so it goes in all and the least remaining qualities, for a person's state changes through successive stages, but how it does, and what state is put on, is known to the Messiah Alone, because it is the work of God the Messiah Alone. How evil is turned into good, and
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