7. 'Whatsoever things He saw' signifies their enlightenment in all the things that are in this Revelation. By 'whatsoever things he saw' in the spiritual sense is not understood the things that John saw, for those were only visions, but the things that they who are understood by 'John' see, and they are those who are in the good of a life derived from charity and its faith, as was said above. In the visions of John these see arcana concerning the state of the Church, thus not when they read them themselves, but when they see them revealed. Moreover to see signifies to understand, therefore in ordinary language it is said that one sees a thing, and one sees that it is the truth (veritas). For a man has sight pertaining to his spirit, just as he has sight pertaining to his body. With his spirit, however, a man sees spiritual things because he sees by virtue of the light of heaven, but with his body he sees natural things because he sees by virtue of the light of the world; and the spiritual things are realities, while the natural things are the forms of those realities. It is the sight of a man's spirit that is called the understanding. From these things it is plain what is understood in the spiritual sense by 'whatsoever things he saw'. Similarly in the places following where it is said that 'he saw'.