Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 824

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824. 'Having a Name written that no one knew but Himself' signifies that no one sees what the Word is like in its spiritual and celestial sense but the Lord and he to whom He Himself reveals it. By 'a name' is signified the quality of anyone (n. 165 and elsewhere), here the quality of the Word or what the Word is like within, that is, in its spiritual and celestial sense. It is said 'a Name 'written' because the Word exists both with men on earth and with angels in the heavens; see THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE (n. 70-75). By 'that no one knew but Himself' is signified that no one sees but the Lord Himself and he to whom He Himself reveals it, that is, what the Word is like in the spiritual sense. That no one but the Only Lord sees the spiritual sense of the Word, and consequently that no one sees that sense except from the Lord, and that no one [does this] from the Lord unless he is in Divine truths from Himself, may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE (n. 26).


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