743. [verse 13] 'These shall fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings' signifies the Lord's fight with them about the acknowledgment of His Human, because the Lord in That is the God of heaven and earth, and also is the Word. By their fight with the Lord, and the Lord's with them, is not understood the sort of fight there is from the evil and with the evil, but such as there is from and with those who are not yet in truths concerning the Lord. By 'the Lamb' is understood the Lord as to the Divine Human and also as to the Word (n. 269, 291, 595); and by 'to overcome them 'is signified to convince by means of the Word. 'For He is Lord of lords and King of kings' signifies because He is the God of heaven and earth. On account of His dominion over all the goods of heaven and the Church He Himself is called 'Lord of lords', and on account of His government over all the truths of heaven and the Church He is called 'King of kings' (n. 664). From these considerations it is plain that by 'they shall fight with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings' is signified the Lord's fight with them about the acknowledgment of the Lord's Divine Human, because the Lord in His own Divine Human is the God of heaven and earth. [2] That the Lord is the God of heaven and earth He Himself teaches in plain words, for He says:-
All things whatsoever the Father has are Mine [John xvi 15.
He who sees Me sees Him Who sent Me] John xii 45.
The Father has given all things into the Son's hand John iii 35, 36; xiii 3.
Father, Thou hast given Me authority over all flesh; all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine John xvii 2, 3, 10.
All authority in heaven and earth is given unto Me Matt. xxviii 18.
I am the Way, the Truth (veritas) and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Me. He who recognises and sees Me, is recognising and seeing the Father, for I am in the Father and the Father is in Me John xiv 6-11.
The Father and I are one John x 30.
That everyone who believes in the Lord has eternal life, and he who does not believe in Him does not see life John iii 15, 17, i8, 36; vi 47; xi 26; and elsewhere.
Also, who does not know that the Lord was conceived from God the Father (Luke i 34, 35); and who is unable to know from this that God the Father, Who is Jehovah, begot the Human in the world, and consequently that the Human is God the Father's Human, and thus that God the Father and He are one as the soul and body are one? Accordingly, is anyone able to approach a man s soul and descend thence to his body? Is not his human to be approached, and then his soul? [3] By these and many other things that are in the Word the Lamb will overcome them. Therefore, because they have given up worshipping the Pope, let them worship Him from Whom the Pope says that he has all authority over the Church and heaven. The Pope is a man, and the Lord is God, and God only is to be approached, invoked, and adored, that is, worshipped. The Lord only is the Holy One Who is to be invoked (Rev. xv 4). I know that they are going to be thinking, How can Jehovah the Father, Who is the Creator of the universe, descend and assume a Human? But let them think also, How can a Son from eternity, Who is equal to the Father, and also Creator of the universe, do it? Is it not the same thing? It is said, the Father and the Son from eternity, but there is not any Son from eternity. There is the Divine Human, Which is called 'the Son sent into the world' (Luke i 34, 35). But concerning these things [more] may be seen below (n. 962).* * The Original Edition has n. 990, clearly an error. It seems most probable that 962:4 was intended, but other editions have suggested n. 961.
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