n has actually made
his own by his life, as can be seen from the lot of infants after death,
all of whom are adopted by the Lord, educated under His auspices in
heaven, and saved. This makes clear that every man, although from the
evils with which he is born he is a hell, is born not for hell but for
heaven.

It is the same with every man born from adultery if he does not himself
become an adulterer. Becoming an adulterer means living in the marriage
of evil and falsity by thinking evils and falsities from a delight in
them and by doing them from a love for them. Every man who does this
becomes an adulterer. Moreover, it is from Divine justice that no one
suffers punishments on account of the evils of his parents, but only on
account of his own; therefore the Lord provides that hereditary evils
shall not return after death, but only one's own evils, and it is only
for those that return that a man is then punished. (A.E., n. 989.)

It has been said that the difference between a love of marriage and a
love of adultery is like that between heaven and hell. There is a like
difference between the delights of these loves; for delights derive
their all from the loves from which they spring. The delights of the
love of adultery derive what they are from the delights of doing evil
uses, thus of evil-doing; and the delights of the love of marriage from
the delights of doing good uses, thus of well-doing. Therefore such as
the delight of the evil is in doing evil such is the delight of their
love of adultery; because a love of adultery descends therefrom. That
it descends from that scarcely anyone can believe; and yet such is its
origin. From this it is evident that the delight of adultery ascends
from the lowest hell. But the delight of the love of marriage, since it
is from the love of the conjunction of good and truth and from the love
of doing good, is a heavenly delight; and it comes down from the inmost
or third heaven, where love to the Lord from the Lord reigns.

From this it can be seen that the difference between these two delights
is like that between heaven and hell. And yet, for a wonder, it is
believed that the delight of marriage and the delight of adultery are
similar; nevertheless the difference between them is such as has now
been described. But the difference can be discerned and felt only by one
who is in the delight of marriage love. One who is in that delight
plainly feels that in the delight o