645. And they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, signifies that truths with such are turned into falsities from evil. This is evident from the signification of "having power" when "the olive trees and lampstands" are referred to, as signifying the goods of love and the truths of doctrine; not that these themselves have such power, namely, to turn truths into falsities, since this is contrary to their nature, which is to turn falsities into truths, for good acts with them and not evil, and yet they appear to have this power and appear to do this, because this occurs when they are hurt; but it is the evil that is from hell, or hell from which all evil comes, that "turns waters into blood," that is, truths into falsities from evil. The above is evident also from the signification of "waters," as being truths (of which above, n. 71, 483, 518, 537, 538); also from the signification of "blood," as being the truth of the Word, and thence of doctrine from the Word, and in the contrary sense falsity, in particular the truth of the Word falsified, for "to shed blood" signifies to do violence to charity, and also to Divine truth which is in the Word. (But as to the signification of "blood" in both senses, see above, n. 329.)

38. Divine love and Divine wisdom are meant in the Word by righteousness and judgment - Divine love being meant by righteousness, and Divine wisdom by judgment. That is why in the Word, righteousness and judgment are predicated of God. For example, in the Psalms of David:

Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of Your throne. (Psalm 89:14)

Again in the Psalms:

(Jehovah) shall bring forth...righteousness as the light,

And...Judgment as the noonday. (Psalm 37:6)

In Hosea:

I will betroth Myself to you forever...

In righteousness and judgment... (Hosea 2:19)

In Jeremiah:

...I will raise to David a righteous Branch,

(Who) will reign as a king....,

And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. (Jeremiah 23:5)

In Isaiah:

(He will sit) upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,

To establish it...in judgment and righteousness... (Isaiah 9:7)

Again in Isaiah:

Jehovah will be exalted, for...

He has filled (the land) with judgment and righteousness. (Isaiah 33:5)

In the Psalms of David:

When I shall have learned the judgments of Your righteousness...

Seven times a day I praise You,

Because of the judgments of Your righteousness. (Psalm 119:7, 164)

The same is meant by life and light in John:

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)

By life there is meant the Lord's Divine love, and by light His Divine wisdom.

The same is also meant by life and spirit in John:

(Jesus said,) "The words that I speak to you are spirit and life." (John 6:63)