1851. 'And afterwards they will go out with great acquisitions' means release, and that they will possess celestial and spiritual goods. This is clear from the meaning of 'going out' as being released, and from the meaning of 'acquisitions' as celestial and spiritual good, for this is what those people acquire who suffer forms of persecution and undergo forms of temptation, oppression, and affliction or slavery, dealt with in this and the previous verse. Those goods were also represented and meant by the acquisitions of the sons of Jacob when they came out of Egypt, Exodus 11:2; 12:36, as well as by their acquisitions in the land of Canaan after the nations had been driven out. And similar examples occur in various places in the Prophets where reference is made to spoils taken from enemies, by which they were enriched.