[2] By salvation being ascribed to Him, is signified that salvation is from Him, because He is salvation. For everything of salvation and eternal life is from the Lord and of the Lord with men and angels; for all the good of love, and all the truth of faith, with man, are not of man, but of the Lord with him, for it is the proceeding Divine which is the Lord in heaven with angels, and in the church with men; and salvation and eternal life are from the good of love and the truth of faith. Hence it is evident what is meant by salvation being ascribed to the Lord, and by the Lord being salvation, as in the following passages.

In Isaiah:

"Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation" (xxv. 9).

Again:

"My salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory" (xlvi. 13).

And again:

"I gave thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth" (xlix. 6).

And again:

"Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh" (lxii. 11).

In David:

Jehovah "will give the salvation of Israel in Zion, when he shall bring back the captivity of his people" (Psalm xiv. 7; liii. 6).

These things are spoken of the Lord, who is here called salvation from the act of saving, and from the fact that He is salvation in man, for so far as He is in man, so far man has salvation. Hence in Luke, Simeon said:

"Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples" (Luke ii. 30 [31]), therefore the Lord was also called Jesus, for Jesus signifies salvation.

[3] It is said, "Who sitteth on the throne, and the Lamb," and the Lord is meant by both; as to Divine Good, by "who sitteth on the throne," and as to Divine Truth, by "the Lamb," and both from His Divine Human, as shewn in the passages cited above. Therefore the Lamb alone upon the throne is elsewhere named, as in the Apocalypse, "Lo, in the midst of the throne a Lamb standing" (v. 6). And again: "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them" (vii. 17). And also in the present chapter, He is called God alone (verses 11, 12). "They fell down before the throne, and worshipped God, saying, Might be to our God." This is to be understood in a manner similar to that which the Lord said when He spake of the Father and the Son, as though they were two, when, yet, by the Father, He meant the Divine in Himself, and by the Son, His Human from that Divine, and this He also clearly teaches when He says, that the Father is in Him and He in the Father, and that He and the Father are one. The meaning of the words, "Who sitteth on the throne and unto the Lamb," is similar. That also by the Lamb is meant the Divine Human of the Lord, and in the respective sense (sensu respectivo) the good of innocence, may be seen above (n. 314).