...understanding, is of the most fatal kind : it teaches us to call evil good, and good evil ; to put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Accordingly we read of " the deceiveableness of unrighteousness." The same individuals who had " pleasure...

...object of happiness and the way of obtaining it. A deceived heart hath turned them aside, and hence they call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light,...for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ; misery for happiness, and happiness for misery. They are strangely and unreasonably disaffected towards...

...folly, and there were no/00/? but these. These, in the highest sense, and in the most striking manner, " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light,...darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." The scriptures speak of such in the following language. " Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and...

...world: and therefore they change the names of things, " calling good, evil, and evil good, putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." By these means they succeed in allaying their own fears, and in commending themselves to each other;...

...perverted both the taste and the judgment, that we sometimes call evil good, and good evil : we put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. We are, in scripture language, wise in our own eyes, and prudent in our own sight; when, alas! we know...

...him,"f guides even a man's judgment, so wickedness may distort it to such a degree, as that he may " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ;"£ and " think wickedly, that God is such an one as himself."|| Even the better sort of...

...Ccelestia, nn. 954 — 964, 818, 815. 256 THE NATURE OF FDTURE PUNISHMENT. words of Holy Writ, " they put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter: they call evil good, and good evil." Thus the evil are in a perpetual phantasm. Says Swedenborg— " They who...

...Following out our own devices and desires, we do evil and speak lies. Oni nature being inverted, we " call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness." Action and speech are the ultimation of will and thought, and the human race was created...

...does of colours, neither of them knowing " what they say, nor whereof they affirm; and therefore " put darkness for light, and light for darkness : bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitjter.V And happy would it be, if this were confined to heathens, and those barbarous nations whom...

...See Psalm cxlv. rules in the children of disobedience, as "to call good evil, and . evil good; to put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter;"* it is not to be imagined that they can avoid running into perpetual mistakes in attempting to reason...