692. Verse 18. And the nations were angered, and thine anger is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those that fear thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those that destroy the earth.

"And the nations were angered," signifies the contempt, enmity, and hatred of the evil against the Lord, and against the Divine things that are from Him, which are the holy things of heaven and of the church; "and thine anger is come, and the time of the dead to be judged," signifies a last judgment upon those who interiorly possess in themselves nothing of good and truth; "and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints," signifies heaven to those who are in truths of doctrine, and in a life according to them; “and to those that fear thy name, the small and the great," signifies, and to all those, of whatever religion, who worship the Lord; "and to destroy those that destroy the earth," signifies hell with those who destroy the church.