249. 5660. What it is to turn away the face, and thus to cause, or rather, to permit, the wicked to be punished by truth itself, which penetrates right to their more inward parts, causing torments almost like the torments of conscience, but more forceful - this also has been portrayed to me in an amazing manner. For I could not join in with them, and thereby they were drawn back; nor did I wish to prevent them, and while I appeared to wish to, this was taking place apart from me, yet still in such a way that I was observing these events in a most general manner, etc.