'Great wrath,' as in Revelation 12:12, signifies hatred against the new church.

'Wrath,' as in Genesis 49:7, signifies aversion from truth.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 635, 658; Arcana Coelestia 6343)

10502. 'And said, I implore You; this people has committed a great sin' means that even though that nation has completely turned away and removed itself from the Divine ... This is clear from the meaning of 'commiting a great sin' as completely turning away and alienating themselves from the Divine, dealt with above in 10498. The words 'even though it has turned away' are used on account of the sequence of thought in the internal sense. For those who understand this level of meaning pay no attention to the literal account, only to the meaning of things within that follow one another in their own order.