world everyone is compelled to speak as he thinks. A hypocrite,
however, wants to speak otherwise than he thinks, but there is impediment
in the tongue as a result of which he can only mumble. Hypocrisies are
lighter or more grave in the measure of the confirmation against God and
of the outward rationalizing in favor of God.

[5] A fifth kind of profanation is committed by those who ascribe to
themselves what is divine. These are meant by Lucifer in Isaiah 14; and
by Lucifer Babylon is meant, as is plain from verses 4 and 24 of that
chapter, where the fate, too, of such profaners is described. The same
profaners are also meant and described in the Apocalypse (chapter 17)
under the harlot seated on the scarlet beast. Babylon and Chaldea are
mentioned at many places in the Word; by Babylon profanation of good is
meant and by Chaldea profanation of truth; the one and the other
committed by those who ascribe to themselves what is divine.

[6] A sixth kind of profanation is committed by those who acknowledge the
Word but deny the divine of the Lord. In the world they are called
Socinians and some Arians. The lot of both is that they invoke the Father
and not the Lord and keep praying the Father, some of them for the sake
of the Son, that they may be admitted to heaven, but in vain, until they
lose hope of salvation. They are then sent down to hell among deniers of
God. They are meant by those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit and who will
not be forgiven in this world or that to come (Mt 12:32). For God is one
in person and essence, in Him is the Trinity, and this God is the Lord.
Since the Lord is heaven also and thus those in heaven are in the Lord,
those who deny the divine of the Lord cannot be admitted to heaven and be
in the Lord. It was shown above that the Lord is heaven and that those in
heaven are therefore in Him.

[7] The seventh kind of profanation is committed by those who first
acknowledge and live by divine truths and then recede from them and deny
them. This is the worst kind of profanation because holy things are mixed
by them with profane to the point where they cannot be separated. Yet
they must be separated for one to be either in heaven or in hell, and as
this cannot be accomplished with them, all that is human, either of the
understanding or of the will, is rooted out, and they become, as we said,
no longer human beings. Almost the same occurs with those who acknowledge
the divine things of the Word and