133. "'Who calls herself a prophetess.'" This symbolically means, and who make that faith the central doctrine of the church and found their whole theology upon it.

A prophet in the Word symbolizes the doctrine of the church, as may be seen in no. 8 above, and so likewise does a prophetess.

As people know, the Protestant Reformed Christian Church has accepted faith alone as the only means of salvation, and therefore works of charity have been divorced from faith as being not saving. As a result, the entire doctrine of human salvation, called theology, consists today of that faith, and accordingly is "the woman Jezebel."

685. 16: 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying. This symbolizes the Word's Divine truth.

The angel of the waters symbolizes nothing else but the Word's Divine truth, because waters symbolize truths (no. 50). And an angel symbolizes the Divinity emanating from the Lord (nos. 415, 631, 633) and also the truth flowing from Him (no. 170).