It is common in the Bible for people to "rise up," and it would be easy to pass over the phrase as simply describing a physical action. But in fact it represents an elevation in spiritual state, moving to a more internal frame of mind closer to the Lord. Often it has to do with understanding a new or important idea; we "rise up" to a state of greater perception and enlightenment. Obviously context is crucial to the exact meaning of the phrase in a given passage -- it matters greatly who it is that is rising up, and why.

4798. From their faces one can also identify evil spirits, for all their desires or evil affections are written on their faces. One can also identify from their faces which hells they are communicating with. For the hells are very many, their genera and species of desires for evil making each one distinct and separate. In general when their faces are seen in the light of heaven they are practically devoid of life, pallid like those of dead bodies - some black, others grotesque. For those faces are forms of hatred, cruelty, deceit, and hypocrisy. But the inferior light in which those evil spirits dwell together deludes them into seeing one another differently.