689. [verse 7] 'And I heard another out of the altar saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Thy judgments' signifies the Divine Good of the Word confirming that Divine Truth. By 'another', namely an angel, is signified the Divine Good of the Word. By 'an angel' is signified what is Divine from the Lord (n. 415, 631, 633); and by an angel 'out of the altar' is signified the Divine Good of love (n. 648), here the Divine Good of the Word, because it is still treating of the Word, and because by 'the angel of the waters' is signified the Divine Truth of the Word (n. 685). Now because the Divine Good of the Word and the Divine Truth of the Word make one, therefore similar things are signified by the things that the angel of the waters spoke and by those that the angel out of the altar spoke. For the angel of the waters said, 'Thou art just, O Lord, Who Is and Who Was, and art Holy, because Thou hast judged these things'; but here the angel out of the altar said, 'Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Thy judgments'. The latter and the former signify similar things, with only the difference that one spoke out of Truth, the other out of Good, and that the one confirmed what the other spoke, but by means of different words; one by words that pertain to the category of truth, and the other by words that pertain to the category of good. For there is the marriage of truth and good in the details of the Word (n. 97), and there are (dantur) words of good and words of truth, which appear different but yet involve similar things.