One
A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They all do different things -- but if they're doing them with a shared underlying purpose, the company -- and the individuals in it -- will likely be successful. The Lord wants all human society to function in a similar way. We have different skills and individual loves, but if we all share a mutual love -- a love of serving others -- then society will function as one, will be a reflection of heaven and will be a good receptacle for the Lord's love. This can also happen within each of us, as we unify our talents and ideas around a central love. And in an abstract sense, it illustrates how a wide collection of varying ideas can be unified around a shared good intention. That is the kind of love pictured when “one” is used in the Bible, either as a specific number or in the sense of several people or objects “being one.” In more casual references -- when used to identify a specific person or object -- the meaning is relatively literal, and is connected to that person or object.
Apocalypse Revealed #628
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
각주:
1. "At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me."
