4415. What this fear [WE 4414] is like, and in what way it is coupled with that other fear [id. 4413], and in what way separate from it, is difficult to describe. The sight of God the Messiah is, indeed, also feared, not because one is frightened by it, but because one fears for one's own impurity, and for one's own powerlessness to do and carry out those things which are ordered by the now present God the Messiah, the Very Holy One Himself. For the person sees that he should now cast away everything profane that is in him, and all that resists, and that is not holy; and seeing in himself the powerlessness, or the apparent inability, to put these things away from him, in thought, will and act, therefore he fears the sight, that is, the presence, of God the Messiah, or that God the Messiah should speak with him. Therefore, this speaking takes place through others, all depending upon the character and capacity of the person in question. I describe this fear from my own experience; whether it would also be like this [Fear]