922. [verse 25] 'And the gates thereof shall not be closed during the day, for night shall not be there' signifies that those who are in truths derived from the good of love from the Lord are continually being received into the New Jerusalem, because there is no untruth of faith there. By [the statement] that 'the gates shall not be closed during the day' is signified that those who wish to enter in are being continually admitted. By 'during the day' is signified continually, because it is always light there, as above (vers. 11 and 23), and there is not any 'night', as it follows on. The reason why those who are in truths derived from the good of love from the Lord are continually being received is because the light of the New Jerusalem is truth derived from the good of love, and the good of love is from the Lord, as has been frequently shown above; and into that light no others can enter but those who are in truths derived from good from the Lord. If strangers enter they are not received because they are not in agreement, and then they either go out voluntarily because they find that light unendurable, or they are sent out. By [the statement] that 'night shall not be there' is signified that there shall be no untruth of faith; for by 'night' is signified what is opposite to the light, and by 'the light' is signified truth derived from the good of love from the Lord, as has been said. Consequently by 'night' is signified that which is not derived from the good of love from the Lord, and this is untruth of faith. Untruth of faith is also understood by 'night' in John:-
Jesus said, I must work God's works while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work John ix 4;
and in Luke:-
In that night there shall be two men in one bed, the one shall be taken, the other shall be left Luke xvii 34.
It treats there of the last time of the Church when there shall be nothing but untruth of faith. By 'a bed' is signified a doctrine (n. 137).
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