Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 730

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730. [verse 6] 'And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus' signifies that form of religion being insane as the result of the adulterated and profaned Divine Truths and Goods of the Lord, of the Word, and of the Church therefrom. By 'the woman' is signified that form of religion, as above (n. 723, 725). By 'to be drunk' is signified to be insane in spiritual things (n. 721). By 'the blood' is signified the falsification, adulteration, and profanation of the Word (n. 327, 379, 681, 684). By 'the saints' are signified those who are in Divine Truths from the Lord by means of the Word, and abstractly the Divine truths of the Lord, the Word, and the Church therefrom (n. 173, 586, 666). By 'the witnesses of Jesus' are signified abstractly the truths and goods in the Church from the Lord by means of the Word (n. 6, 16, 490, 506, 669), here those profaned, because it is said 'the blood of the martyrs or witnesses of Jesus', and it is said of 'Babylon', by which is also signified the profanation of the good and truth of the Word and the Church (n. 717, 718). From these considerations it is established that by 'I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus' is signified that form of religion being insane as the result of the adulterated and profaned Divine Truths and Goods of the Lord, the Word, and the Church therefrom.


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