628. 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, "Fear God." This symbolizes an admonition not to do evil, because it is to act against the Lord.
A loud voice symbolizes an admonition, and to fear God means, symbolically, not to do evil, because it is to act against the Lord. To fear God is to love Him, fearing to do evil because it is to act against Him - every love having this fear within it - as may be seen in no. 527 above.
This admonition is addressed now to people who will belong to the new church on earth, because the first step in reformation is to live according to the Ten Commandments, where the evils that are not to be done are listed. For anyone who does those evils does not fear God. But someone who does not do them, refraining from them because they are acts against God - such a one does fear God, and also loves the Lord, as the Lord Himself teaches in John 14:20-24. 1
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