19. CHRISTUS. SECTIO 2.17

Cui assimilabitis Me, cui similis sim, inquit Sanctus, tollite in altum oculos vestros, et videte, quis creavit haec, etc. Esaj. 40:25, 26.

Judicium meum apud Jehovam, et operae pretium meum apud Deum meum. Tunc pretiosus ero in oculis Jehovae, et Deus meus erit robur meum. Deseruit me Jehovah, et Adonai oblitus est mei, Esaj. 49:4, 5, 14. Propter Jehovam qui fidelis, et Sanctum Israelis qui elegit te, vers. 7.

Dedi te in lucem gentium, ut sis salus mea usque ad extremitatem terrae. Dedi Te in foedus populi, ad restituendum Terram, ad dividendum haereditates devastatas; ad dicendum vinctis, exite, eis qui in tenebris, revelamini, super viis pascent, et in omnibus clivis pascuum eorum; non esurient neque sitient, super scaturiginibus aquarum ducturus est eos, Esaj. 49:6, 8, 9, 10.

Confidat in nomine Jehovae, et innitatur Deo suo, Esaj. 50:10.

Aspicite ad Me sectantes justitiam, quaerentes Jehovam, respicite ad Petram ex qua excisi estis, Esaj. 51:1.

Expergiscere, expergiscere, indue robur, Brachium Jehovae, expergiscere juxta dies antiquitatis. [Esaj. 51:9.]

Ponam verba mea in os tuum, ad plantandum coelos, et ad fundandum terram, Esaj. Esaj. 51:16.

Cognoscet populus meus Nomen meum in die illo, nam Ego illo loquens, ecce Me, quam jucundi sunt pedes Evangelizantis super montibus, audire facientis pacem, dicentis Zioni, regnat Rex tuus, speculatores tollent vocem, simul cantabunt, quum oculo ad oculum viderint, quod revertatur Jehovah Zionem, Esaj. 52:6, 7.

Denudavit Jehovah Brachium sanctitatis suae, in oculis omnium gentium, videruntque omnes fines terrae salutem Dei nostri, Esaj. 52:10.

Quis credidit audito verbo nostro, et Brachium Jehovae super quo revelatum est, Esaj. 53:1.

Agitur de Domino in toto Capite, et describitur status vitae Ipsius, hic his in summa: Quod non forma illi, neque honor; quod contemtus et non reputatus. Quod confossus ob praevaricationes nostras, contusus ob iniquitates nostras. Quod Jehovah incurrere fecerit in Ipsum iniquitatem omnium nostrum. Quod sicut agnus ad mactationem ductus; quod excisus e terra viventium. Quod quia posuit reatum animam suam, prolongaretur dies, et voluntas Jehovae per manum Ipsius prosperaretur, eo quod iniquitates eorum Ipse portaverit, et pro eis exinaniverit ad mortem usque animam suam; quod cum praevaricatoribus numeratus sit, et pro praevaricatoribus intercesserit, Esaj. 53:1 ad 12.

440. And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but who in Greek has the name Apollyon. (9:11) This symbolically means that those caught up in falsities springing from lusts, who by a total falsification of the Word destroyed the church, are in a satanic hell.

The angel of the bottomless pit as king does not signify that some angel is king there, but that falsity reigns in it. For a king in its genuine sense symbolizes someone who possesses truths owing to an affection for goodness, and abstractly truth itself (no. 20); and in an opposite sense, therefore, a king symbolizes someone who is caught up in falsities owing to a lust for evil, and abstractly falsity itself. The bottomless pit symbolizes the satanic hell where such people reside (nos. 387, 421). A name symbolizes the character of someone's or something's state (nos. 81, 122, 165).

Abaddon in Hebrew is someone who destroys, or a destroyer, and likewise Apollyon in Greek, and this is falsity of the most fundamental sort, which by a total falsification of the Word has destroyed the church.

Abaddon in the Hebrew text means destruction in the following places:

Your truth in destruction? (Psalms 88:11)

Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering. (Job 26:6)

For it will be a fire that consumes to destruction... (Job 31:12)

Destruction and death say... (Job 28:22)

Elsewhere hell and the devil are called destruction or a destroyer (Isaiah 54:16, Ezekiel 5:16; 9:1, Exodus 12:13), but by using another term.