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Genesis 49:8

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8 To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you.

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In Isaiah 62:3, the crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah signifies wisdom from good, and a royal diadem in the hand of God intelligence from truth.

In Genesis 49:26, this signifies the exteriors of man. (Arcana Coelestia 6437)

In Exodus 25:11, this signifies a boundary from good so that people are not injured by evils. (Arcana Coelestia 9492)

In Isaiah 28:5, this signifies wisdom from good. (Arcana Coelestia 9818[21])

In Revelation 6:2, this signifies eternal life and the prize of victory. (Doctrine Regarding Sacred Scripture 12, Apocalypse Revealed 103)

In Revelation 4:4, this signifies things of wisdom from love. (Apocalypse Revealed 235)

In Revelation 6:2, this signifies the divine good that the Lord took on when He was on Earth. (Apocalypse Explained 272[9])

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 272)

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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 12

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12. The sixth chapter of the book of Revelation says that when the Lamb opened the first seal of the book, a white horse went out and that he who sat on it had a bow, and a crown was given him. That when He opened the second seal, a fiery red horse went out, and that he who sat on it was given a great sword. That when He opened the third seal, a black horse went out, and that he who sat on it had a scale in his hand. And that when He opened the fourth seal, a pale horse went out, and that the name of him who sat on it was Death.

The symbolic meanings of these images can be laid open only by knowing the spiritual sense, and they are fully laid open when one knows what opening the seals symbolizes, what a horse symbolizes, and all the rest. They describe the successive states of the church in respect to its understanding of the Word, from its beginning to its end. The Lamb’s opening the book’s seals symbolizes an exposure of these states of the church by the Lord. A horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word. A white horse symbolizes an understanding of truth from the Word in the church’s first state. The bow of him who sat on the horse symbolizes a doctrine of charity and faith fighting against falsities. The crown symbolizes eternal life, the reward of victory. The fiery red horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word extinguished as to goodness in the church’s second state. The great sword symbolizes falsity fighting against truth. The black horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word extinguished as to truth in the church’s third state. The scale symbolizes a regard for truth so little as to be almost nonexistent. The pale horse symbolizes no understanding of truth owing to evil practices and consequent falsities in the church’s fourth and last state. And Death symbolizes eternal damnation.

That this is what these images symbolize in the spiritual sense is not apparent in the literal or natural sense. Consequently, if the spiritual sense were not at some time revealed, the Word would remain closed in respect to this chapter and everything else in the book of Revelation, to the point that at last no one would know in what the Divine holiness in it lies. Neither would anyone know the symbolic meaning of the four horses in Zechariah 6:1-8 and the four chariots coming from between two mountains of bronze.

  
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Thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.