648. Verses 7, 8. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their bodies [are] upon the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

"And when they shall have finished their testimony," signifies in the end of the church, when the Divine of the Lord is no longer acknowledged, and thence there is no longer the good of love and the truth of doctrine; "the beast coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them," signifies assault from infernal love; "and shall overcome them and kill them," signifies the consequent destruction of all the good and truth of the church. "And their bodies [are] upon the street of the great city," signifies the extinction thereof from evils and falsities of doctrine; "which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt," signifies by the evils of the love of self, and by falsities thence; "where also our Lord was crucified," signifies by which, namely, evils and falsities thence originating in infernal love, the Lord was rejected and condemned.