804. "Salvation and glory and honor and power to the Lord our God!" This symbolically means that salvation by the Lord is now possible because a reception of Divine truth and goodness is now possible in consequence of His Divine power.

Salvation to the Lord our God symbolizes an acknowledgment and confession that salvation is made possible by the Lord. Glory and honor to the Lord our God symbolizes an acknowledgment and confession that the Lord is the source of Divine truth and Divine good, thus that these are received from Him (nos. 249, 629, 692). Power to the Lord our God symbolizes an acknowledgment and confession that the power is the Lord's.

To say that salvation, glory, honor and power are the Lord's accords with the sense of the letter, as we read also elsewhere that blessing is the Lord's. But in the spiritual sense this becomes a declaration that, because these are in the Lord, they also come from the Lord, and here, that they are now present in angels and people, because those Roman Catholics have been removed and expelled who interrupted, weakened, and impeded their influx from the Lord. The case is like that in the world when dark clouds intervene between the sun and people, for as the intervening dark clouds interrupt, weaken, and impede the light of the world's sun, so too do the black falsities interposed by Roman Catholics interrupt, weaken, and impede the light of the sun in heaven, which is the Lord. The case is entirely the same, except that one is natural and the other spiritual. Falsities in the spiritual world also appear as clouds, murky or black depending on their character.

This, too, is the reason that the spiritual sense of the Word was not revealed until after the Last Judgment, and the fact that the Lord alone is God of heaven and earth. For by the Last Judgment those Roman Catholics were removed, and likewise those Protestant Reformed who confessed faith alone, whose falsities were like dusky clouds interposed between the Lord and people on earth. Their falsities were also like cold winds that dispelled spiritual warmth, which is the love of goodness and truth.