242. [245.] 105. I have perceived what the delight of a love of commanding is like, that the sweetness it has in it is indescribable, causing a person to believe that it is heaven and its joy, when in fact it is hell. It is also transformed into such a dreadful fate. It is the same with a love of doing evil, with a love of hatred and vengeance, with a love of stealing, with a love of adultery, too, and with their delights. A person does not know that when these delights abate through reformation by the Lord, then for the first time do the delights of heaven enter, delights which immeasurably surpass the former delights, and that the delights of those evils then become undelightful and cause distress. Neither does he know beforehand that such delights are possible.