582. [verse 5] 'And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies' signifies that it is teaching evils and untruths. By 'a mouth speaking' is signified doctrine, preaching and discussion (n. 452); by 'speaking great things and blasphemies' is signified to teach evils and untruths; for 'great' is predicated of good, and in the opposite sense of evil (n. 656, 663, 896, 898), and by 'blasphemies' are signified truths of the Word falsified, thus untruths. What is here specifically signified by 'blasphemies' may be seen above (n. 571). The reason why it teaches evils is because it removes the works of the law, thus the doing of them, from salvation, and line who does this is in spiritual evils, which are sins.