26. Even they who pierced Him. This symbolically means that even those will see Him who are caught up in falsities in the church.
To "pierce Jesus Christ" means nothing else than to destroy His Divine truth in the Word. This also is meant by the report that one of the soldiers pierced His side, and blood and water came out (John 19:34). Blood and water are spiritual and natural Divine truth, thus the Word in its spiritual and natural senses; and to pierce the Lord's side is to destroy both by falsities, as the Jews did also. For everything connected with the Lord's suffering represented the state of the Jewish Church in relation to the Word - on which subject, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 15-17.
To pierce Him means, symbolically, to destroy the Word by falsities because it is said of Jesus Christ, who is shortly called the Son of Man, and "the Son of Man" means the Lord in relation to the Word. Therefore to pierce the Son of Man is to do it to the Word.
