Apocalypse Explained (Whitehead) n. 896

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896. Verse 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works do follow with them. 13. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me," signifies consolations by the Lord after temptations (n. 897); "Write," signifies certainty (n. 898); "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth," signifies the resurrection into eternal life of those who have lived heretofore a life of charity, and will so live hereafter (n. 899); "Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors," signifies that they will henceforth be free from combat against evils and falsities, and from infestation by them (n. 900); "for their works do follow with them," signifies that they have spiritual life, which is the life of the angels of heaven (n. 901, 902).


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