Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 961

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961. Some people out of habit, others out of contempt, in ordinary conversation use phrases appearing in Sacred Scripture as sayings with which to make jokes or be derisive, imagining that their jokes or derisive remarks are then more clever. But such thoughts and statements from Scripture ally themselves to the bodily and filthy ideas they have, and in the next life cause them considerable harm, for they reappear together with the things that are unholy. These people too undergo the punishments of mutilation until they lose such habits.


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