122. 'And in the little stone a new name written' signifies that in this way they will have good of a quality they did not have before. That 'name' signifies the quality of a thing may be seen above (n. 81). Here, therefore, it signifies the quality of the good. Every quality of a good results from the truths united thereto; for good without truths is like bread and food without wine and water, and they are not nourishing; and also like fruit in which there is no juice. [Those whose good is without truths] also appear as trees stripped of their leaves, on which dry apples are hanging left over from autumn. This is understood also by these words of the Lord:-
Every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt becomes insipid, wherewith will you season it? Have salt in yourselves Mark ix 49, 50.
'Salt' there is a longing for truth.