163. That the Lord carried sins, signifies that He sustained [the attacks of] the hells, and in a peculiar sense this represented the falsities and evils of the Church. For the representations are many, especially those which are of His passion, which may be enumerated and confirmed by those things which the prophets underwent, whereby they represented the Church. Because these are so numerous, bring forward simply as stated in Isaiah that He carried sins. That thus also they are taken away is an arcanum which may be explained; here, by temptations admitted into Himself, etc.
