3198. 'And lifted up his eyes and sew' means directing the attention. This is clear from the meaning of 'lifting up the eyes' as thinking, dealt with in 2789, 2829; here it means directing the attention since it is said that 'he lifted up his eyes and saw' and this has reference to Rational Good to which truth from the Natural had not yet been joined.

Antipas my faithful martyr, ('Revelation 2:13'), in the spiritual or angelic language, signifies those who are hated on account of acknowledging the divine human of the Lord.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 137; Apocalypse Revealed 112)