Arcana Coelestia #1299
1299. 1 Quod ‘bitumen fuit iis pro luto’ significet quod malum cupiditatis pro bono, constat ex significatione ‘bituminis’ et ex significatione ‘luti’ in Verbo: hic quia agitur de aedificatione tum Babylonicae, praedicantur talia quae aedificationi inserviunt, tu bitumen quia sulphureum et igneum, quibus significantur in Verbo cupiditates imprimis quae sunt amoris sui; hic per ‘bitumen’ mala cupiditatum ut et falsa inde, quae etiam sunt mala quibus turris, de qua in sequentibus, exstruitur; quod talia significentur, constat apud Esaiam,
Dies ultionis Jehovae; ... convertentur torrentes ejus in picem, et pulvis ejus in sulphur; et erit terra ejus in picem ardentem, 34:8, 9;
‘pix et sulphur’ pro falsis et malis cupiditatum: praeter alibi.
Notes de bas de page:
1. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
Revelation 21:1-5
1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
2
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
3
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
4
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
5
He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
