118. V. THEREFORE MAN OUGHT AS OF HIMSELF TO REMOVE EVILS FROM THE EXTERNAL MAN. The proof of this article follows from what has just been said and from explanations which may be seen in three articles in THE DOCTRINE OF LIFE FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM; in the first, where it is explained that no one can shun evils as sins so as to have an interior aversion to them, except by combats against them (n. 92-100); in the second, that man ought to shun evils as sins and fight against them as of himself (n. 101-107); and in the third, that if anyone shuns evils for any reason whatever except that they are sins, he does not shun them but only prevents them from appearing before the world (n. 108-113).
