8626.
'The war of Jehovah will be against Amalek from generation to generation' means that by the Lord's Divine power they have been subjugated and cast into hell, out of which they can never rise up. This
is clear from the meaning of 'the war of Jehovah' as being cast into hell; and from the meaning of 'from generation to generation' as everlastingly, so that they can never rise up out of it. This is
done to them by the Lord's Divine power, see immediately above in 8625 (end). The reason why 'the war of Jehovah' means being cast into hell is that the war of Jehovah is everlasting victory. Hellish
genii are completely incapable of waging war and fighting against Jehovah, that is, the Lord. But it seems to them that they fight; indeed it also seems to them sometimes that they are victorious, when
they subdue those immersed in evil. Nevertheless they have no power whatever against the Divine; the smallest amount of Divine power is enough, every time it is called on, to tame instantly the entire
devil's crew, even if it consisted of millions. However He allows them the opportunity to act, just so far as their activity may serve a useful purpose and the Lord can turn their evil into good, a
subject which in the Lord's Divine mercy will be dealt with elsewhere.a All this goes some way to prove that 'the war of Jehovah will be against Amalek from generation to generation' means being subjugated
by the Lord's Divine power and cast into hell, from where they can never rise up.
Notes
a This proposal was not fulfilled, but presumably the material mentioned here concerning the hells appeared in
the work published a few years later, in 1758, whose English title is Heaven and Hell.