637. "And they will have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name." This symbolizes the continuing state of vexations in people who acknowledge and accept that faith, affirm it, and live in accordance with it.

To have no rest day or night symbolizes those people's continuing state of vexations after death, because their torment was just predicted in the preceding declaration. Day or night means for all time, and symbolically, in the spiritual sense, through every state, thus continually; for day and night in that sense symbolize states of life (nos. 101, 476).

That to worship the beast and its image and receive the mark of its name means, symbolically, to acknowledge that faith, to accept its doctrine, to affirm it in oneself, and to live in accordance with it, may be seen in no. 634 above, where a similar statement occurs.