Apocalypse Explained # 651
651. And shall overcome them, and kill them.- That this signifies the destruction thence of all the good and truth of the church, is evident from the signification of overcome and killing the two witnesses, as denoting to destroy those things which the two witnesses signify, which are the good of love and of charity, and the truth of doctrine and of faith. That the affections of the natural man separated from the affections of the spiritual man, which are evil desires of every kind arising from infernal loves, will destroy those things, is signified by the beast coming up out of the abyss; that it was predicted that this will come to pass at the end of the church, when the Last Judgment takes place, has been stated above. To kill, in the Word, signifies to kill spiritually, which is here to destroy the good of love and truth of doctrine, as may be seen above (n. 315).
Genesis 7:1-9
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Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
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You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
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Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
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In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
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Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
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Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
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Clean animals, animals that are not Clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
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went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
