133. * how opposites are raised up to serve for a person's betterment, and many more particulars relating to reformation - something of which I was permitted to recall earlier [103-04])may be seen discussed in an account about temptation [see SEWE 66], if God the Messiah sees fit to allow me to set it forth. 4621. From this it may be evident how "the earth would become desolate," if evil were driven out all at once; and how "the beast of the field would multiply," that is, natural vices, that have become natural through acts; consequently, how it is driven out little by little. For when