249. [verse 9] 'And when the animals had given glory and honour and thanks to the One sitting upon the throne' signifies that the Word awards all truth and all good and all worship to the Lord about to judge. The 'animals' are the Word, as has been shown; 'glory and honour', when said of the Lord, are [equivalent to saying] that all truths and good are of and from Him; the giving of 'thanks' is all worship; the 'One sitting upon the throne' is the Lord as to judgment, as above. It is plain from this that by 'when the animals had given glory and honour and thanks to the One sitting upon the throne' is signified that the Word awards all truth and all good and all worship to the Lord about to judge. By 'giving the Lord glory and honour' nothing else is understood in the Word than to acknowledge and confess that all truths and all good is from Him, thus that He Only is God, for 'glory' is His out of Divine Truths, and 'honour' out of Divine Good. [2] These things are signified by 'glory and honour' in the following places:-
Jehovah made the heavens, glory and honour [are] before Him Ps. xcvi 5, 6.
Jehovah God. [Thou hast been] very great, Thou hast put on glory and honor Ps. civ 1.
The works of Jehovah are great. His work is glory and honour Ps. cxi 2, 3.
Glory and honour Thou layest upon Him, blessings for ever Ps. xxi 5, 6 [H.B. 6, 7]-[said] of the Lord.
Gird Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O Mighty in glory and honour, in Thine honour mount up, ride upon the Word of the truth (veritas) Ps. xlv 3, 4 [H.B. 4. 5].
Thou hast made him to lack very little compared with angels, Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor Ps. viii 5 [H.B. 6].
The glory of Lebanon has been given to Him, the honour of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, and the honour of our God Is. xxxv 1, 2.
All these things (haec et illa) [are said] of the Lord; besides elsewhere, as Ps. cxlv 4, 5, 12; Rev. xxi 24, 26. Moreover, 'glory' is said in the Word where it treats of Divine Truth (n. 629) and 'honour' is said where it treats of Divine Good.
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