524. [verse 18] 'And the nations were enraged' signifies those who are in faith alone and consequently in evils of life, that they were burning with anger and attacking those who are against their faith. By 'the nations' are understood those who are in evils of life, and abstractly evils of life (n. 147, 483); here, however, those who are in faith alone, because it treats of those here, and these are in evils of life because their religion is that the law does not condemn them provided they have the faith that Christ endured the condemnation thereof. Also, their being 'enraged' signifies not only that they were burning with anger but also that they were attacking those who are against their faith, as can be established from the things following concerning 'the dragon' (chap. xii 17, and afterwards).