584. [verse 6] 'And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God and His Name' signifies their sayings, which are scandals against the Lord's Divine Itself and Divine Human, and at the same the against everything of the Church derived from the Word, by means of which the Lord is worshipped. 'He opened his mouth in blasphemies' signifies the sayings, which are false-speaking. By 'mouth' is signified doctrine, preaching, and discussion (n. 452), consequently by 'to open the mouth' is signified to utter them; and 'blasphemies' signify falsifications of the Word, and more things, as above (n. 571, 582), here indeed scandals, because it follows on 'against God and His Name'. By 'God' is signified the Lord's Divine, as often elsewhere in the Apocalypse; and by 'His Name' is signified everything by means of which He is worshipped, also the Word because worship is in accordance therewith (n. 81). That by 'the Name' of Jehovah or of God is signified the Lord's Divine Human and at the same the time Word, also everything by means of which He is worshipped, can be further established from these passages:-
Jesus said, Father glorify Thy Name, and there came a voice out of heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again John xii 28.
Jesus said, I have made Thy Name manifest to men, and I have made Thy Name known to them John xvii 26.
Whatsoever you ask in My Name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in My Name, I will do it John xiv 13, 14.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; as many as have received, He has given them the power to be sons of God, believing in His Name; and the Word was made flesh John i 1, 12, 14.
Jesus said, He who does not believe in Him has been judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the Only-begotten Son of God John iii 18.
By 'the Name of Jehovah God that is not to be profaned' in the second precept of the Decalogue, and by 'the Name of the Father that is to be hallowed' in the Lord's Prayer, nothing else is understood.
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