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Revelation 6:4

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4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

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Apocalypse Explained #360

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360. Verses 3, 4. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second animal saying, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red; and it was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another; and there was given unto him a great sword.

"And when he had opened the second seal," signifies the manifestation of the succeeding state of those who are of the church where the Word is; "I heard the second animal saying," signifies, out of the inmost heaven from the Lord; "Come and see," signifies attention and perception. "And there went out another horse that was red," signifies the understanding of the Word destroyed as to good; "and it was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth," signifies the Word thence not understood, whence arise dissensions in the church; "that they should kill one another," signifies the falsification and extinction of truths; "and there was given unto him a great sword," signifies, by falsities.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.