830. [verse 16] 'And upon the garment and upon His thigh He has a Name written, King of kings and Lord of lords' signifies that the Lord teaches in the Word what He is like, that He is the Divine Truth of Divine Wisdom and the Divine Good of Divine Love, thus that He is the God of the universe. By the Lord's 'garment' is signified the Word as to Divine Truth, as above (n. 825). By the Lord's 'thigh' is signified the Word as to Divine Good. The 'thighs' and 'loins' signify conjugial love, and because that love is fundamental to all loves therefore the 'thighs' and 'loins' signify the good of love. That this is the result of correspondence may be seen above (n. 213). Therefore when 'thigh' is said of the Lord it signifies Himself as to the Good of Love, here also the Word as to that. By 'a Name written' is signified what the Lord is like, as above (n. 824). By 'King of kings' is understood the Lord as to the Divine Truth of Divine Wisdom, and by 'Lord of lords' is understood the Lord as to the Divine Good of Divine Love. The like is signified by the Lord's 'kingdom' and 'dominion', where both are mentioned, as may be seen above (n. 664). [2] Because it is said 'King of kings and Lord of lords' and by those [terms] is understood the Lord as to Divine Truth and as to Divine Good, therefore also it is said 'a Name written upon the garment and upon the thigh', and by the 'Name written upon the garment' is signified the Word as to Divine Truth and by the 'Name written upon the thighs' is signified the Word as to Divine Good. Each of the two is in the Word. The Divine Truth of the Word is in its spiritual sense, which is for the angels of the middle or second heaven who are in intelligence derived from Divine Truths, and the Divine Good of the Word is in its celestial sense, which is for the angels of the highest or third heaven who are in wisdom derived from Divine Goods. But the latter sense is deeply hidden, perceptible only to those who from the Lord are in a love directed to the Lord. That it is the Lord is said above openly in the Apocalypse:-
These shall fight with the Lamb; the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings Rev. xvii 14.
[3] That 'the thigh' signifies the good of love, and when [said] of the Lord the Divine Good of Divine Love, is established from these [statements] in the Word:-
Justice shall be the girdle of His loins, and the Truth (veritas) the girdle of His thighs Isa. xi 5.
Above the head of the cherubs was the appearance of the Man upon a throne; from the appearance of His loins and upwards and from the appearance of His loins and downward, was the appearance of fire and brightness round about Ezek. 26-28.
By 'the Man upon a throne' is understood the Lord. By 'the appearance of fire from the loins upward and downward' is signified His Divine Love, and by 'the brightness round about' is signified the Divine Wisdom therefrom. The 'man' seen by Daniel,
whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz Dan. x 5,
was an angel in whom the Lord was. By 'gold of Uphaz' is signified the good of love. The like is signified by 'the thighs (Isa. v 27; Ps. xlv 3 [H.B. 4]; and elsewhere). Concerning the correspondence of the thighs or loins with conjugial love, which is fundamental to all loves, ARCANA CAELESTIA may be seen (n. 5050-5062).
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