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And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
941. And they shall reign forever and ever. That this symbolically means that they will be in the Lord's kingdom and live in conjunction with Him to eternity is clear from the explanations in nos. 284, 849, and 855 above, where similar words occur.
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.
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And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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