9257. 'When you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden' means falsity that does not accord with the Church's good, as a result of which they will perish. This is clear from the meaning of 'the ass' as true factual knowledge, and so in the contrary sense false factual knowledge, dealt with in 2781, 5492, 5741, 8078; from the meaning of 'one who hates', when used in reference to what is false, as that which is contrary to the Church's good, thus that which is not in accord with it (for 'hatred' in the spiritual sense is repugnance and dissension between truths and falsities, and between forms of good and evils, 3605, 4681, 4684); and from the meaning of 'lying under a burden' as perishing. From these meanings it is evident that 'the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden' means falsity that does not accord with the Church's good, as a result of which they will perish.