628. [verse 7] 'Saying with a great voice, Fear God' signifies a warning not to do evils, because this is against the Lord. By 'a great voice' is signified a warning; and by 'to fear God' is signified not to do evils because this is against the Lord. That 'to fear God' is to love Him by fearing to do evil because it is against Him, and that all love has that fear within it, may be seen above (n. 527). These things are said now to those who will belong to the New Church on earth, because the first thing of reformation is to live in accordance with the precepts of the Decalogue, where the evils that ought not to be done are enumerated. For he who does those evils does not fear the Lord; but the one who does not do them, fleeing from them because they are against the Lord, fears and also loves the Lord, as He Himself teaches in John (xiv 20-24).