26. 'And they who pierced Him' signifies that those who in the Church are in untruths are also going to see. By 'to pierce' Jesus Christ is understood nothing else than to destroy His Divine Truth in the Word. This is also understood by [the statement] that:-
One of the soldiers pierced His side, and there came out blood and water John xix 34.
'Blood and water' are spiritual and natural Divine Truth, thus the Word in its spiritual and in its natural sense, and 'to pierce the Lord's side' is to destroy both senses by means of untruths, as indeed was done by the Jews. For all things of the Lord's passion were representing the state of the Jewish Church as to the Word, on which subject [something] may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD (n. 15-17). The reason why by 'to pierce Him' is signified to destroy the Word by means of untruths is because this is said of Jesus Christ, Who is presently called the Son of Man, and by 'the Son of Man' is understood the Lord as to the Word. 'To pierce the Son of Man', therefore, is [to do the same to] the Word.
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