King
In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.
In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).
In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)
In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])
In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)
Arcana Coelestia＃1073
1073. ‘Discoopertus fuit in medio tentorii sui’: quod significet perversa inde, constat ex significatione ‘discooperti’ seu nudi; is enim discoopertus et nudus ab ebrietate ex vino vocatur, apud quem non vera fidei, et magis apud quem perversa; ipsa vera fidei comparantur vestibus quae tegunt bona charitatis seu charitatem, nam charitas est ipsum corpus, vera ideo sunt vestes; vel quod perinde est, charitas est ipsa anima, vera fidei sunt sicut corpus quod est amictus animae; etiam vera fidei in verbo appellantur ‘vestes’, et ‘integumentum’; quare in vers. seq. 23 dicitur ‘quod Shem et Japheth acceperint vestem et texerint nuditatem patris sui’; spiritualia se habent respective ad caelestia sicut corpus quod amicit animam, aut sicut vestes quae corpus, in caelo quoque repraesentantur per vestes; hic, quia ‘discoopertus jacuisse’ dicitur, significatur quod se deprivaverit veris fidei per id quod investigare voluerit illa per sensualia, et inde ratiocinia. Similia in Verbo significantur per ‘jacere nudatus ex ebrietate vini’, ut apud Jeremiam,
Gaude et laetare filia Edomi, habitans in terra Uz, etiam super te transibit calix, inebriaberis et nudaberis, Thren. 4:21;
et apud Habakkuk, Vae facienti bibere socium suum, ... et etiam inebriando, propterea ad aspiciendum super nuditates eorum, 2:15 1 .
脚注:
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.
