738. 'Five have fallen, and one is, and another is not yet come, and when he comes he must remain a short while' signifies that all the Divine Truths of the Word have been destroyed except this one, that to the Lord was given all authority in heaven and on earth; and except this other one-which has not yet come into question, and when it does come it is not going to continue-which is, that the Lord's Human is Divine. By the 'five' are not signified five, but all the rest, here all the rest of the Divine Truths of the Word that are signified by the 'kings'. For the numbers in the Apocalypse, and in the Word generally, signify the quality of the things with which they are connected. They are like certain adjectives connected with substantives, or like certain predicates adjoined to subjects, as can be seen from the numbers two, three, four, six, seven, ten, twelve, a hundred and forty-four, of which [something has been said] above. Here, therefore, the 'five' signify all the rest, because the 'seven' signify all the holy things of the Word, and it follows on that 'one is' and that 'another' is going to come, thus that there are two out of them all that have remained. It is in consequence plain that by 'five have fallen' is signified that all the rest have been destroyed. 'To fall' is said because it concerns kings, who fall by the sword. By 'one is' nothing else is signified but this Divine Truth, that TO THE LORD HAS BEEN GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, in accordance with the words of the Lord Himself (Matt. xxviii 18; John xiii 3; xvii 2, 3, 10), as may be seen above (n. 618). The reason this 'one' has not been destroyed is because otherwise they could not have assigned to themselves dominion over all things of the Church and the Word, and over heaven. [2] By 'another who is not yet come, and when he comes he must remain a short while' is signified a Divine Truth that has not yet come into question, and when it does come it is not going to continue with them, which is, that THE LORD'S HUMAN IS DIVINE. 'He must remain a short while' is said, because it is in accordance with Divine Providence, of which [something was said] above (n. 686). That it is a Divine Truth that the Lord's Human is Divine, may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD from beginning to end. But that this has not yet come into question is because after they have transferred all the Lord's authority to themselves they have not been able to acknowledge the Lord's Human as Divine, because then it would be said by the laity and the common people that they have transferred the Divine Authority to themselves, and that thus the Pope himself was God, and his ministers were gods. But that still this is going to come into question can be established by reason of the fact that it has been foretold here in the Apocalypse.