Apocalypse Revealed #253

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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253. Saying, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power." (4:11) This symbolizes their confession that, being Divine truth and good, the Lord possesses the kingdom by His merit and righteousness.

Confession is symbolically meant by "saying." His merit and righteousness are symbolically meant by "You are worthy, O Lord." That the Lord is Divine truth and Divine good is symbolically meant by glory and honor, as in no. 249 above. And that He possesses the kingdom is symbolically meant by receiving power.

Brought together into a single expression of the meaning therefore, these phrases symbolize their confession that, being Divine truth and good, the Lord possesses the kingdom by His merit and righteousness.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.