Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 921

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921. 'And the kings of the land shall bring their glory and honour into it' signifies that all who are in truths of wisdom derived from spiritual good will confess the Lord there and ascribe to Him all the truth and all the good that are with them. By 'the kings of the land' are signified those who are in truths derived from good from the Lord (n. 20, 854), here therefore those who are in truths of wisdom derived from the good of spiritual love, because 'the nations' are mentioned first, by which are signified those who are in the good of celestial love, treated of in the preceding paragraph. By 'to bring glory and honour into it', or into the New Jerusalem, is signified to confess the Lord and to ascribe to Him all the truth and all the good that are with them. That these things are signified by 'to bring and give glory and honour' may be seen (n. 249, 629, 693), for 'glory' is predicated of the Divine Truth, and 'honour' of the Divine Good, of the Lord (n. 249). By 'the nations' and 'the kings' similar things are signified as by the' nations and peoples' treated of above (n. 483), by 'nations' those who are in the good of love and by 'peoples' those who are in the truths of wisdom; also in the opposite sense. Therefore in different places in the Word they are termed 'nations and kings', just as they are termed 'nations and peoples', as in these places:-

All kings shall bow down to Him, and all nations shall serve Him Ps. lxxii 11.

Thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breasts of kings Isa. lx 16.

Many nations and great kings shall make them serve Jer. xxv 14.

The Lord at thy right hand has smitten kings in the day of wrath, He has judged between the nations Ps. cx 5, 6;

besides elsewhere.


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