385. 'And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes' signifies that they shall not any more be in fights against evils and the untruths thereof, and so shall not be in sorrows, but in goods and truths, and thereby in heavenly joys from the Lord. These things are signified by its being said that the Lamb 'shall wipe away every tear from their eyes' because above in verse 14 it is said that 'they are those who are coming out of great affliction', by which is signified that they are those who had been in temptations and had fought against evils (n. 377); and those who afterwards are not in fights against evils are in goods and truths and thereby in heavenly joys. Similar things are signified by these [words] in Isaiah:-
He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord Jehovih shall wipe away a tear from off all faces: then shall they say in that day, Behold, this is our God, for Whom we have waited that He might deliver us, this is Jehovah for Whom we have waited, we will exult and be glad in His Salvation Isa. xxv 8, 9.
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