the world," John xviii. 37. "Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty;-Jehovah is our King; he will save us, " Isaiah xxxiii. 17, 22. "I Jehovah am your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King," Isaiah xliii. 15. "Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts, I am the first and I am the last, and beside me there is no God," Isaiah xliv. 6. "Jehovah shall be King over all the earth," Zech. xiv. 9, Psalm xlvii. 2, 6, 7, 8. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and the King of Glory shall come in.-Jehovah of Hosts, he is the King of Glory," Psalm xxiv. 7—10. "I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth," Jerem. xxiii. 5, xxxiii. 15: besides other passages, as Isaiah vi. 5, lii. 7, Jerem. x. 7, 10, xlvi. 18, Ezek. xxxvii. 22, 24, Hosea x. 15, Zeph. iii. 15, Psalm xx. 9, Psalm xlv. 13, 15, 16, Psalm lxviii. 24, Psalm 1xxiv. 12.

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665. "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name?" signifies, that he alone is to be loved and worshiped. To fear God, signifies to love him; and to glorify his name, signifies to worship him that he alone is to be loved and worshiped, is understood by "who shall not," and by "because thou only art holy." That to fear God, is to love him by fearing to do what is displeasing to him, and that such fear has place in all love, see above, n. 527, 628. The reason why to glorify his name is to worship him, is, because by the name of Jehovah is signified every thing by which he is worshiped, n. 81, and to glorify, signifies to acknowledge and confess.

666. "For thou only art holy," signifies, that he is the Word, the truth, and illumination. That the Lord alone is holy, see above, n. 173; and that it is divine truth which is called holy, n. 173, 580: and as the Word is divine truth and divine truth is the Lord, and as divine truth spiritually illuminates, for it is light in heaven, but from the Lord, therefore by, for he "only is holy,' is signified that the Lord is the Word, the truth, and illumination. Since the Word is divine truth, and divine

truth spiritually illuminates, therefore it is said that the Word was dictated from Jehovah by the Holy Spirit, and that the Holy Spirit illuminates and teaches man ; but who does not know that God is omnipresent, and that what is holy proceeds from him, and that where he is received he gives illustration? Who may not thence conclude, that the Holy Spirit is not a God by itself, distinct from Jehovah, or the Lord, as one person from another, but that it is Jehovah, or the Lord himself? He who acknowledges the divine omnipresence, will also acknowledge this. That by the Holy Spirit, in the Word, is meant the divine life of the Lord, thus himself, and in particular the life of his wisdom, which is called divine truth, may be seen in the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, n. 50-53, where it is proved from the Word. That the Lord is the Word, may be seen, John i. 1, 14. That he is the truth, John xiv. 6. That he is the light, and consequently illumination, John xii. 31, 35, 36.

667. "For all nations shall come and worship before thee," signifies, that all who are in the good of love and charity, will acknowledge the Lord to be the only God. By all nations are signified they who are in the good of love and charity; that these are meant by nations, when used in a good sense, may be seen above, n. 483; to come and worship before him, signifies to acknowledge the Lord to be God, and as there is one God in whom there is a trinity, and that the Lord is that God, it signifies to acknowledge him to be the only God.

668. "For thy judgments are made manifest," signifies, that the truths of the Word, when opened, testify it. By judgments are signified divine truths, according to which man should live, by which his quality is known, and according to which he will be judged; and as those divine truths are in the Word, and the Word is now laid open, which testifies that the Lord alone is the God of heaven and earth, therefore by "because thy judgments are made manifest," is signified because the truths of the Word testify it. That the Word is now laid open, and testifies that the Lord is the only God of heaven and

earth, and that we ought to live according to his commandments, and that the faith now generally prevailing should be removed, may appear from the Four Doctrines just published, one concerning the Lord, another on the Sacred Scripture, a third on a Life according to the Commandments of the Decalogue, and the fourth on Faith; these being the particulars that are meant by "for thy judgments are made manifest." Inasmuch as the Lord is divine good and divine truth, and since by judgment is signified divine truth and by justice divine good, therefore, in many places, where the Lord is spoken of, justice and judgment are mentioned, as in the following: "Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with judgment," Isaiah i. 27. "He shall sit upon the

throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it with judgment and with justice," Isaiah ix. 7. "Jehovah is

exalted, for he dwelleth on high; he hath filled Zion with judgment and justice," Isaiah xxxiii. 5. "But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah, which exerciseth loving kindness, judgment, and justice in the earth,” Jerem. ix. 24. "I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth," Jerem. xxiii. 5, xxxiii. 15. "I will betroth thee unto me in justice and in judgment," Hosea ii. 19. "But let judgment run down as water, and justice as a mighty stream," Amos v. 24. Thy justice, O Jehovah, is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep," Psalm xxxvi. 7. "Jehovah shall bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noon day," Psalm xxxvii. 6. "He shall judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment," Psalm lxxii. 2. "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne," Psalm lxxxix. 14. "When I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of the judgments of thy justice," Psalm cxix. 7, 164, and in other places, that men ought to do justice and judgment, as Isaiah i. 21, v. 16, lvi. 1, lviii. 2, Jerem. iv. 2, xxii. 3, 13, 15, Ezek. xviii. 5, xxxiii. 14, 16, 19, Amos 25

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vi. 12, Micah vii. 9, Deut. xxxiii. 21, John xvi. 8, 10. In these passages justice is mentioned in relation to the good of truth, and judgment in relation to the truth of good. Since judgment is mentioned in relation to truth, and justice to good, therefore in some places it is said truth and justice, as in Isaiah xi. 5, Psalm lxxxv. 11, and in David: "The judgments of Jehovah are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb," Psalm xix. 9, 10. That the Lord's government in the celestial kingdom is called justice, and in the spiritual kingdom, judgment, may be seen in the work concerning Heaven and Hell, n. 214, 215, 216.

669. "And after that I saw, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened," signifies, that the inmost of heaven was seen, where the Lord is in his holiness in the Word, and in the law, which is the decalogue. By the temple is signified, in a supreme sense, the Lord as to his Divine Humanity, and heaven and the church thence derived, n. 191, 529, in the present instance the Christian heaven; by the tabernacle of the testimony is signified the inmost of that heaven, where the Lord is, in his holiness in the Word, and in the law, which is the decalogue, because the tabernacle equally signifies heaven, n. 585, and the inmost part of the tabernacle was that where the ark was, in which were the two tables, upon which the ten words were written with the finger of God, which are the ten commandments of the decalogue, these being understood by the testimony, and also called the testimony; from which it is evident, that by "I saw, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened," is signified that the inmost of heaven was seen, where the Lord is in his holiness in the law or decalogue. The reason why the tabernacle of the testimony also signifies where the Word is, is, because the testimony is mentioned not only in relation to the law, which is the decalogue, but also to the Word, and to the Lord as the Word, the Word testifying of him, n. 490, 555. That the Word is in heaven, and is deposited in the inmost

part thereof, which is called the sacred repository, and that the light in this place is bright and flaming, exceeding every degree of light that shines in the other parts of heaven without, may be seen in the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Sacred Scripture, n. 70—75, and concerning that holy place, n. 73 of the same work. Respecting the holiness of the law, or decalogue, see the Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem from the Commandments of the Decalogue, n. 53-60. That the ark, in which weré contained the two tables, constituted the inmost part of the temple in Jerusalem, and, con-. sequently of the tabernacle, see 1 Kings vi. 19–28, viii 4-10. That the law, which is the decalogue, wa: called the testimony, appears from the following passages; "And Moses went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand;—and the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables," Exod. xxxii. 15, 16. "Two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God," Exod. xxxi. 18. "Jehovah said, Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I will give thee," Exod. xxv. 16, 21, 22. "And Moses took and put the testimony in the ark," Exod. xl. 20. That the cloud of incense may cover the mercyseat, that is upon the testimony," Levit. xvi. 13. "Jehovah said unto Moses, Lay up the rods before the testimony, and afterwards Aaron's rod before the testimony," Numb. xvi. 4, 9, 10.. " And Moses left the rods before Jehovah," Numb. xvii. 11. The ark is called the ark of the testimony, Exod. xxxi. 7. And the tabernacle* is called the habitation of the testimony, Exod. xxxviii. 21.

670. “And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues," signifies, a preparation from the Lord to operate by influx from the inmost heaven into the church, that its evils and falses may be universally disclosed, and that thus the wicked be separated from the

* The word tabernacle is derived from the root signifying to dwell, or inhabit, and the original warrants this interpretation of our author:-Edts.