64. 2. THEY WHO ARE IN FAITH SEPARATED FROM CHARITY, ARE MEANT IN THE WORD BY GOATS. THIS APPEARS FROM THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THOSE UPON WHOM IT WAS EXECUTED. The Last Judgment was executed upon no others but such as were moral in externals, and not spiritual or very slightly so, in internals. Those, however, who were evil both in externals and in internals, were cast into hell long before the Last Judgment; and those who were spiritual in externals and at the same time in internals, were raised up into heaven long before the Last Judgment. For judgment was not executed upon those who were in heaven, nor upon those who were in hell, but upon those who were in the intermediate state between heaven and hell, and who had there made for themselves, as it were, heavens.
[2] That the Last Judgment was executed upon them, and upon no others, may be seen in the little work on THE LAST JUDGMENT Nos. 59 and 70; and it will be further seen in THE CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGMENT, particularly in what there relates to the judgment upon the Reformed. Of the Reformed, those who at that time were in faith separated from charity, not only in doctrine but also in life, were cast into hell; while those who were in the same faith as to doctrine only, but yet were in charity as to life, were raised up into heaven. From these things it was evident that no others were meant by the goats and the sheep mentioned by the Lord in Matthew chapter xxv, where He speaks of the Last Judgment.
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