829. Which hath the stroke of a sword and did live. That this signifies the quality of those natural things which conjoined those things that they took from the natural sense of the Word for purpose of confirmation, is evident from the explanation of those things mentioned above in the third verse of this chapter where are these words:- "I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his death-stroke was healed;" concerning which see above (n. 785, 786). That a sword signifies the combat of falsity against truth, and the destruction of truth by falsities, may be also seen above (n. 131, 367).