165. What it is to carry iniquities: - (1) It is to sustain all the hells, by temptations; (2) So that in Him might be represented the state of the Church, as in the case of the prophet* who was to take a harlot to wife, [the prophet]** who was to go naked and barefoot, [the prophet]*** who was to eat a cake made from dung, and was to lie on the right side and the left, and carry iniquities. So it was with the Lord in the particulars of His passion. * Hosea 1:1-11. ** Isaiah 20:3, 4. *** Ezekiel 4:1-13.