1466. Those who represent the learned and wise of the world confessed that they cannot desist, and indeed that they want my tongue thus to perish - an indication that the wise of the world can with difficulty be instructed in those matters which are the interior and more interior things of faith. Although they could have understood, still they were unwilling, because they want to know and expound them from themselves and their own knowledges. But since they confessed that they can hardly desist, it is as the Lord said that, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of the heavens." [Math. xix 24]. By "riches" are here meant such knowledges as those from which human doctrine and wisdom are derived. 1748, Mar. 17.