389. VERSUS 9-11.

"Et cum aperuisset quintum sigillum, vidi subter altari animas occisorum propter Verbum Dei, et propter testimonium quod habebant. Et clamabant voce magna, dicentes, Usque quo Domine, qui Sanctus et Verus, non judicas, et vindicas sanguinem nostrum de habitantibus super terra? Et datae singulis stolae albae; et dictum eis, et requiescerent adhuc tempus parvum, usque dum complentur et conservi eorum et fratres eorum, et futuri interfici sicut et illi."

9. "Et cum aperuisset quintum sigillum, significat praedictionem adhuc ulteriorem (n.390); " ¹ vidi sub altari", significat qui sub caelo reservati sunt (n. 391); "animas occisorum propter Verbum Dei et propter testimonium quod habebant", significat qui rejecti sunt et abditi propter Divinum Verum, et propter confessionem Domini (n. 392).

10. "Et clamabant voce magna", significat dolorem animi eorum (n. 393); "dicentes, Usque quo Domine, qui Sanctus et Verus, non judicas et vindicas sanguinem nostrum de habitantibus super terra?" significat suspiria ad Dominum, qui Justitia, de judicio et remotione illorum qui persequuntur et infestant illos qui profitentur Dominum et in charitatis vita sunt (n. 394).

11. "Et datae singulis stolae albae", significat Divinum Verum a Domino apud illos, et tutationem (n. 395); "et dictum eis ut requiescerent adhuc tempus parvum", significat aliquam adhuc durationem in illo stat" (n. 396); "usque dum complentur et conservi eorum et fratres eorum, futuri interfici sicut et illi", significat dum omnia consummata sunt n. 397).

脚注:

Shepherds represent people who lead and teach others, using knowledge and true ideas to help people reach the goodness of life. This makes sense if you think about what a shepherd does. He makes sure the flock has good grass to eat; plants in the Bible represent facts and knowledge. The shepherd makes sure the flock has good water to drink; water represents true thinking about the spiritual aspect of day-to-day life. He carries weapons (a true understanding of spiritual things) to ward off predators (desires for evil) and keeps the flock safe. And the ultimate goal of the shepherd is for the flock to be useful, to do good, to provide good things, representing the good of life. There are, of course, a few cases in which shepherds are the bad guys (for instance, a group of them in Midian would chase Jethro's daughters away so they could water their sheep first; Moses found favor by helping the daughters and ended up marrying one of them). In these cases shepherds represent people who lead and teach without the good of life as the goal. When goodness is not the goal, ideas and knowledge are twisted into falsity and the teaching and leading trend toward evil. See also Sheep.