181. The whole life of the Lord was representative so that He might be in ultimate things, and thus from first things might subjugate the hells through ultimates and reduce all things into order. In ultimates is all strength. Hence it is that even by all things of His passion there was represented the state of the Church, and how it was contrary to the Divine and to the truths and goods of heaven and the Church. It is an arcanum that spirits do not see a man but only his affections, also that the evil are entirely opposed to the affections of truth and good, holding them in hatred and attempting to destroy them altogether. Therefore He admitted temptations into Himself, because He was at the same time in ultimates. So also it is to be understood that He fulfilled all things of the Law.