Verse 33. Who Himself when incarnate trod the path of regeneration before each soul to prepare for each a suitable state of heaven and peace (John 14:2), and is present with His Divine love in states of obscurity and trial to show the regenerating soul the path it should tread, and tempers also states of illustration according to the reception of each.

683. ¹ 16:4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl onto the rivers and springs of water. This symbolizes influx into the understanding of the Word in these people.

The third angel's pouring out his bowl symbolizes, as in the case of the first two, an influx from the Lord springing from truths and goods - here an influx into the understanding of the Word in these people. For rivers symbolize an abundance of truths, of service to a person's rational self, thus his intellect, for doctrine and life (no. 409). And a spring of water symbolizes the Lord in relation to the Word, thus the Lord's Word, and therefore springs of water symbolize Divine truths gained from it (nos. 384, 409).

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