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1 καί-C κατά-P ὁ- A--ASF ὥρα-N1A-ASF ἐκεῖνος- D--ASF παραἔρχομαι-VF--FMI3S *μιχαηλ-N---NSM ὁ- A--NSM ἄγγελος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM μέγας-A1P-NSM ὁ- A--NSM ἵστημι-VXI-XAPNSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APM υἱός-N2--APM ὁ- A--GSM λαός-N2--GSM σύ- P--GS ἐκεῖνος- D--NSF ὁ- A--NSF ἡμέρα-N1A-NSF θλῖψις-N3I-GSF οἷος-A1A-NPN οὐ-D γίγνομαι-VCI-API3S ἀπό-P ὅς- --GSM γίγνομαι-VCI-API3P ἕως-P ὁ- A--GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF ἐκεῖνος- D--GSF καί-C ἐν-P ἐκεῖνος- D--DSF ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF ὑψόω-VC--FPI3S πᾶς-A3--NSM ὁ- A--NSM λαός-N2--NSM ὅς- --NSM ἄν-X εὑρίσκω-VC--APS3S ἐνγράφω-VP--XPPNSM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN βιβλίον-N2N-DSN

2 καί-C πολύς-A1P-NPM ὁ- A--GPM καταεὕδω-V1--PAPGPM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM πλατύς-A3U-DSM ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF ἀναἵστημι-VF--FMI3P ὁ- A--NPM μέν-X εἰς-P ζωή-N1--ASF αἰώνιος-A1B-ASF ὁ- A--NPM δέ-X εἰς-P ὀνειδισμός-N2--ASM ὁ- A--NPM δέ-X εἰς-P διασπορά-N1A-ASF καί-C αἰσχύνη-N1--ASF αἰώνιος-A1B-ASF

3 καί-C ὁ- A--NPM συνἵημι-V7--PAPNPM φαίνω-VF2-FAI3P ὡς-C φωστήρ-N3H-NPM ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--NPM καταἰσχύω-V1--PAPNPM ὁ- A--APM λόγος-N2--APM ἐγώ- P--GS ὡσεί-D ὁ- A--NPN ἄστρον-N2N-NPN ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM αἰών-N3W-ASM ὁ- A--GSM αἰών-N3W-GSM

4 καί-C σύ- P--NS *δανιηλ-N---VSM καλύπτω-VA--AAD2S ὁ- A--APN πρόσταγμα-N3M-APN καί-C σφραγίζω-VA--AMD2S ὁ- A--ASN βιβλίον-N2N-ASN ἕως-P καιρός-N2--GSM συντέλεια-N1A-GSF ἕως-C ἄν-X ἀπομαίνομαι-VD--APS3P ὁ- A--NPM πολύς-A1P-NPM καί-C πίμπλημι-VS--APS3S ὁ- A--NSF γῆ-N1--NSF ἀδικία-N1A-GSF

5 καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S ἐγώ- P--NS *δανιηλ-N---NSM καί-C ἰδού-I δύο-M ἕτερος-A1A-NPM ἵστημι-VXI-YAI3P εἷς-A3--NSM ἔνθεν-D ὁ- A--GSM ποταμός-N2--GSM καί-C εἷς-A3--NSM ἔνθεν-D

6 καί-C εἶπον-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--DSM εἷς-A3--DSM ὁ- A--DSM περιβάλλω-VM--XPPDSM ὁ- A--APN βύσσινος-A1--APN ὁ- A--DSM ἐπάνω-D πότε-D οὖν-X συντέλεια-N1A-NSF ὅς- --GPN εἶπον-VX--XAI2S ἐγώ- P--DS ὁ- A--GPM θαυμαστός-A1--GPM καί-C ὁ- A--NSM καθαρισμός-N2--NSM οὗτος- D--GPN

7 καί-C ἀκούω-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--GSM περιβάλλω-VM--XPPGSM ὁ- A--APN βύσσινος-A1--APN ὅς- --NSM εἰμί-V9I-IAI3S ἐπάνω-P ὁ- A--GSN ὕδωρ-N3T-GSN ὁ- A--GSM ποταμός-N2--GSM ἕως-P καιρός-N2--GSM συντέλεια-N1A-GSF καί-C ὑψόω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASF δεξιός-A1A-ASF καί-C ὁ- A--ASF ἀριστερός-A1A-ASF εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM οὐρανός-N2--ASM καί-C ὄμνυμι-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASM ζάω-V3--PAPASM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM αἰών-N3W-ASM θεός-N2--ASM ὅτι-C εἰς-P καιρός-N2--ASM καί-C καιρός-N2--APM καί-C ἥμισυς-A3U-ASN καιρός-N2--GSM ὁ- A--NSF συντέλεια-N1A-NSF χείρ-N3--GPF ἄφεσις-N3I-GSF λαός-N2--GSM ἅγιος-A1A-GSM καί-C συντελέω-VS--FPI3S πᾶς-A3--NPN οὗτος- D--NPN

8 καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS ἀκούω-VAI-AAI1S καί-C οὐ-D διανοέομαι-VCI-API1S παρά-P αὐτός- D--ASM ὁ- A--ASM καιρός-N2--ASM καί-C εἶπον-VAI-AAI1S κύριος-N2--VSM τίς- I--NSM ὁ- A--NSF λύσις-N3I-NSF ὁ- A--GSM λόγος-N2--GSM οὗτος- D--GSM καί-C τίς- I--GSM ὁ- A--NPF παραβολή-N1--NPF οὗτος- D--NPF

9 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--DS ἀποτρέχω-V1--PAD2S *δανιηλ-N---VSM ὅτι-C κατακαλύπτω-VM--XPPNPN καί-C σφραγίζω-VM--XPPNPN ὁ- A--NPN πρόσταγμα-N3M-NPN ἕως-C ἄν-X

10 πειράζω-VS--APS3P καί-C ἁγιάζω-VS--APS3P πολύς-A1P-NPM καί-C ἁμαρτάνω-VB--AAS3P ὁ- A--NPM ἁμαρτωλός-A1B-NPM καί-C οὐ-D μή-D διανοέομαι-VC--APS3P πᾶς-A3--NPM ὁ- A--NPM ἁμαρτωλός-A1B-NPM καί-C ὁ- A--NPM διανοέομαι-V2--PMPNPM προςἔχω-VF--FAI3P

11 ἀπό-P οὗ-D ἄν-X ἀποἵστημι-VC--APS3S ὁ- A--NSF θυσία-N1A-NSF διά-P πᾶς-A3--GSM καί-C ἑτοιμάζω-VS--APS3S δίδωμι-VC--APN ὁ- A--NSN βδέλυγμα-N3M-NSN ὁ- A--GSF ἐρημώσις-N3I-GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-APF χίλιοι-A1A-APF διακόσιοι-A1A-APF ἐνενήκοντα-M

12 μακάριος-A1A-NSM ὁ- A--NSM ἐνμένω-V1--PAPNSM καί-C συνἄγω-VF--FAI3S εἰς-P ἡμέρα-N1A-APF χίλιοι-A1A-APF τριακόσιοι-A1A-APF τριάκοντα-M πέντε-M

13 καί-C σύ- P--NS βαδίζω-VA--AAD2S ἀναπαύω-V1--PMD2S ἔτι-D γάρ-X εἰμί-V9--PAI3P ἡμέρα-N1A-NPF καί-C ὥρα-N1A-NPF εἰς-P ἀναπλήρωσις-N3I-ASF συντέλεια-N1A-GSF καί-C ἀναπαύω-VF--FMI2S καί-C ἀναἵστημι-VF--FMI2S ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASF δόξα-N1S-ASF σύ- P--GS εἰς-P συντέλεια-N1A-ASF ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8620

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8620. 'Write this [for] a memorial in the book' means for everlasting remembrance. This is clear from the meaning of 'a memorial' as that which should serve to remind or bring to remembrance, dealt with in 8066, 8067; and from the meaning of 'writing in the book' as to serve as an everlasting reminder. This is the meaning of 'writing in a book in Isaiah,

Come, write on a tablet among them, and express it in a book, 1 so that it may be for time to come, forever even to eternity. 2 Isaiah 30:8.

Since remembrance is meant by 'writing in a book', true believers are therefore said to have been 'written in the book of life'; for salvation is meant by God's remembering, and damnation by His not remembering or His forgetting. 'The book of life' is referred to in Daniel as follows,

The Ancient of Days [was seated], the judgement sat down, and the books were opened. Daniel 7:9-10.

In the same prophet,

At that time Your people will be rescued, every one who is found written in the book. Daniel 12:1.

In David,

Add 3 iniquity onto their iniquity, and do not let them reach Your righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, 4 and not be written with the righteous. Psalms 69:27-28.

In John,

He who conquers will be clad in white garments; I will not blot his name out of the book of life. Revelation 3:5.

In the same book,

None will enter the new Jerusalem except those who have been written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 21:26-27.

In the same book,

I saw that the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged by the things written in the books, according to their works. They were judged, all of them according to their works. And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:12-15.

See in addition Revelation 13:8; 17:8.

[2] Anyone who does not know from the internal sense what 'the book of life' is, and also what is meant by 'the books' whose contents are to be used to judge the dead, can have no other idea than this - that such books exist in heaven, and that they contain written down in them everyone's deeds, the memory of which is thus preserved. However, by the books mentioned in the places quoted above one should not understand books but the remembrance of all the deeds they had performed. For each person takes with him into the next life the memory of all his deeds, that is, the book of his life, 2474. But judging someone according to his deeds can be done by no one except the Lord alone. For all deeds emanate from final causes, 5 which lie inwardly and deeply hidden; and it is according to those causes that a person is judged. These are known to no one except the Lord, which is why judgement belongs to Him alone. This is also what the following words in John are used to mean,

I saw on the right hand 6 of Him sitting on the throne a book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. After that I saw a strong angel crying out with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose its seals? One of the elders said to me, Behold, the Lion which is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose its seals. And He took the book, and they sang a new song, You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals. Revelation 5:1-9

From all this it becomes clear that 'a book written' is used to mean the presence of someone's deeds. The book referred to in David has a similar meaning,

In Your book they all were written, the days that were assigned. Psalms 139:16.

Footnotes:

1. literally, on a book (i.e.. on a scroll)

2. literally, into a future day, into perpetuity even into eternity

3. literally, Give

4. literally, lives

5. i.e. ends in view

6. i.e. a scroll roll Lying on the open palm of the hand

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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