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وقال لامك لامرأتيه عادة وصلّة. اسمعا قولي يا مرأتي لامك. واصغيا لكلامي. فاني قتلت رجلا لجرحي. وفتى لشدخي.
تكوين 4:23
Apocalypse Explained # 838
838. That there be given them a mark upon their right hand and upon their foreheads, signifies an attestation of the acknowledgment that they are of the church, and are in the so-called truths and goods of that faith. This is evident from the signification of a "mark," as being a sign or attestation of acknowledgment, here that they are of that church; also from the signification of "right hand," as being the truth of faith in its power (See above, n. 298); also from the signification of "forehead," as being the good of love (See also above, n. 427. So here "the right hand and the forehead" signify the so-called truths and goods of that faith, which, nevertheless, are either not truths and goods or are falsities and evils. The acknowledgment of these as truths and goods however is signified by "giving and receiving a mark upon their right hand and upon their foreheads." A "mark" signifies a sign of acknowledgment also in the following passages in Revelation, 14:9, 11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4. Moreover, a "mark" has a similar meaning as:
The sign set by Jehovah upon Cain (Genesis 4:15);
Likewise the sign that the prophet was commanded to set upon the foreheads of the men in the city of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 9:4);
as also the "sign" in Moses:
Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be for frontlets before thine eyes (Deuteronomy 6:5, 8; 11:18).
Heaven and Hell # 122
122. The sun of the world appears to the angels as a dense darkness from being opposite to the Sun of heaven, and the moon as a darkness from being opposite to the Moon of heaven, and this constantly. The reason is that the world's fieriness corresponds to the love of self, and the illumination from it corresponds to what is false from that love. The love of self is the direct opposite of the Divine love, what is false from that love is the direct opposite of the Divine truth, and the opposite of the Divine love and the Divine truth is, to the angels, dense darkness. Therefore, in the Word, to worship the sun and moon of this world and bow down to them, signifies to love self and the falsities that are from the love of self, and such will be cut off.
(Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3-5, Jeremiah 8:1-2, Ezekiel 8:15-16, 18, Revelation 16:8, Matthew 13:6) 1 .
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The sun of the world is not visible to the angels, but, in its place, something dark at the back, opposite to the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord (Arcana Coelestia 7078, 9755).
The sun in the opposite sense signifies the love of self (Arcana Coelestia 2441); in which sense, by adoring the sun, is signified to worship those things that are contrary to heavenly love, or to the Lord (Arcana Coelestia 2441, 10584).
To those who are in the hells, the Sun of heaven is thick darkness (Arcana Coelestia 2441).
