697. [verse 11] 'And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their annoyances and for their sores' signifies that they could not acknowledge the Lord Only to be the God of heaven and earth, on account of the resistances resulting from interior untruths and evils springing from their having received and acknowledged the dogma concerning faith alone. By 'to blaspheme the God of heaven' is signified to deny or not to acknowledge the Lord Only to be the God of heaven and earth (n. 571, 582). By 'annoyances' are signified the annoyances of acknowledging it, as above (n. 696), thus the resistances resulting from the interior untruths, for that which resists is an annoyance. The annoyances are predicated of the untruths. By 'sores' are signified interior evils, as above (n. 678), and because interior evils and untruths spring from their having received and accepted the dogma concerning faith alone, therefore this also is signified.