687. [verse 6] 'Because they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets' signifies this on account of the fact that the single tenet that faith alone saves without the works of the law, when received, perverts all the true doctrinal tenets out of the Word. By 'to pour out blood' is signified, here as above (n. 684), to falsify the truths of the Word, thus to pervert them. By 'saints' are signified those who are in the truths of the Church, thus also abstractly the truths of the Church (n. 586). By 'prophets' are signified those who are in doctrinal tenets out of the Word, thus also abstractly the doctrinal tenets out of the Word (n. 133).