7680. “整整一昼一夜” 表侵扰者的一切觉知, 无论模糊的还是不模糊的, 也就是说, 有了毁灭. 这从 “昼” 和 “夜” 的含义清楚可知: “昼” 是指不模糊的觉知的状态; “夜” 是指模糊觉知的状态. 因为白天的时间段, 即早晨, 中午, 晚上和夜间, 对应于属聪明和智慧的启示状态 (参看5672, 6110节, 因而对应于觉知的状态, 总体上的昼夜也是如此. “昼夜” 在此之所以被称为觉知的状态, 而非启示的状态, 是因为侵扰的恶人没有启示, 尽管他们仍有觉知. 只要他们仍留有从自己所生活的教会那里获得的真理和良善的任何知识, 他们就拥有觉知. 因为他们通过真理和良善与那些住在天堂里的人交流. 不过, 一旦他们被剥夺这些知识, 如他们经历荒凉时的情形, 他们就不再拥有任何觉知. 诚然, 地狱里的人能证明他们的邪恶是正当的, 也能证明他们的虚假是正确的; 但这不是觉知. 觉知就是看到真理就是真理, 良善就是良善; 以及邪恶就是邪恶, 虚假就是虚假. 而视真理为虚假, 视良善为邪恶并非觉知; 反之, 视邪恶为良善, 视虚假为真理也并非觉知. 凡如此行的人都没有觉知, 只有幻想; 这幻想产生一种觉知的表象, 这些人由此知道如何通过诸如显明给感官并支持恶欲的那类观念来使得虚假和邪恶合理化.

In the Bible, the wind represents the power of the Lord working on us through the heavens. The Lord is love itself, and by extending His love He created the energy that created the universe, the energy that still sustains and empowers us. That love, and the wisdom that is its form, can act on us more or less directly depending on our spiritual states. A powerful wind indicates a more direct force.

It's interesting to note that the sun corresponds to the Lord, that its heat corresponds to the Lord's love and its light to the Lord's wisdom. In the natural world, the sun's heat causes wind by warming the air. In the spiritual world, the Lord's love causes spiritual wind by acting through heaven.

The Bible also talks about four winds, an east wind and a "wind of the sea." The four winds stand for the whole of the impact of the Lord's love. The east wind is withering, devastating – it represents the Lord's love as experienced by those in hell. The west wind represents stopping or turning aside the flow of the Lord's love – in Israel the "wind of the sea" would come from the west, opposing the east wind.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 418, 419; Apocalypse Revealed 343 [2-4]; Arcana Coelestia 7679, 7702)