Doutrina Do Senhor #28
28. Que o "Filho do homem" signifique o Senhor quanto à Palavra, era porque os profetas também foram chamados "filhos do homem." Que os profetas sejam chamados "filhos do homem", era porque representavam o Senhor quanto à Palavra e, daí, significavam a doutrina da igreja proveniente da Palavra. No céu, onde os profetas são nomeados na Palavra, não se entende outra coisa. Com efeito, a significação espiritual de "profeta" e também de "filho do homem" é a doutrina da igreja proveniente da Palavra e, quando se trata do Senhor, é a Palavra mesma. Que o profeta Daniel tenha sido chamado "filho do homem", veja-se no seu livro (Daniel 8:17). Que o profeta Ezequiel tenha sido chamado "filho do homem", veja-se no seu livro (Ezequiel 2:1, 3, 6, 8; Ezequiel 3:1, 3-4, 10, 17, 25; Ezequiel 4:1, 16; Ezequiel 5:1; Ezequiel 6:2; Ezequiel 7:2; Ezequiel 8:5-6, 8, 12, 15; Ezequiel 11:2, 4, 15; Ezequiel 12:2-3, 9, 18, 22, 27; Ezequiel 13:2, 17; Ezequiel 14:3, 13; Ezequiel 15:2; Ezequiel 16:2; Ezequiel 17:2; Ezequiel 20:3-4, 27, 46; Ezequiel 21:2, 6, 9, 12, 14, 19, 28; Ezequiel 22:18, 24; Ezequiel 23:2, 36; Ezequiel 24:2, 16, 25; Ezequiel 25:2; Ezequiel 26:2; Ezequiel 27:2; Ezequiel 28:2, 12, 21; Ezequiel 29:2, 18; Ezequiel 30:2, 21; Ezequiel 31:2; Ezequiel 32:2, 18; Ezequiel 33:2, 7, 10, 12, 24, 30; Ezequiel 34:2; Ezequiel 35:2; Ezequiel 36:1, 17; Ezequiel 37:3, 9, 11; 16; Ezequiel 38:2, 14; Ezequiel 39:1, 17; Ezequiel 40:4; Ezequiel 43:7, 10, 18; Ezequiel 44:5). Por aí é agora evidente que o Senhor quanto ao Divino Humano é chamado "Filho de Deus" e, quanto à Palavra, "Filho do homem."
Apocalypse Revealed #538
538. Having seven heads. This symbolizes irrationality owing to their falsifying and profaning the Word's truths.
A head symbolizes wisdom and intelligence, and in an opposite sense, irrationality. However, the seven heads here, being the heads of the dragon, symbolize more specifically irrationality owing to a falsification and profanation of the Word's truths. For the number seven is predicated of things that are holy, and in an opposite sense, of things that are profane (no. 10). Consequently we are told next that on its heads were seen seven jewels, 1 and jewels symbolize the Word's truths, there truths falsified and profaned.
That a head symbolizes wisdom and intelligence is apparent from the following passages:
I will give you wise and intelligent men..., and I will make them your heads. (Deuteronomy 1:13)
...Jehovah... has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, namely, the seers. (Isaiah 29:10)
In Daniel 2:32 the head of Nebuchadnezzar's image of fine gold symbolizes the wisdom of the first age, which existed in people of the Most Ancient Church.
That in an opposite sense a head symbolizes irrationality and foolishness is apparent in the book of Psalms:
God will smite the head of His enemies, the hairy crown of the one who walks in his guilty ways. (Psalms 68:21)
In Genesis 3:15 the head of the serpent that would be trampled has the same symbolism, and so does "striking the head over much land" in Psalms 110:6-7; Lamentations 2:10; 2 Samuel 13:19).
Moreover, seven heads later in the book of Revelation, namely, in Revelation 13:1, 3; 17:3, 7, 9, also symbolize irrationality owing to a falsification and profanation of truths.
Footnotes:
1. The word translated as "jewels" here means diadems or crowns in the original Greek and Latin, but the writer's definition of the term elsewhere make plain that he regularly and consistently interpreted it to mean jewels or gems.
