Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 138If ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to my voice, I willalso walk contrary to you (Lev. 26:21, 23, 24, 27).In Isaiah:This people that walk in darkness have seen a great light; they thatdwell in the land of the shadow, upon them hath the light shined (Isa.9:2).In Micah:All the peoples walk in the name of their god, and we will walk inthe name of Jehovah our God (Micah 4:5).In Isaiah:Who among you feareth Jehovah? He that walketh in darkness,who hath no brightness (Isa. 50:10);besides many other passages (as in Jer. 26:4; Ezek. 5:6; 20:13, 16;Zech. 10:12; Micah 4:5; Luke 1:6). From these passages it can beseen that “walking,” in the spiritual sense, signifies living; and as itsignifies living, so in reference to the Lord, as in this passage, itsignifies life itself, for the Lord is life itself, and the rest arerecipients of life from him (see above, n. 82, 84).98. Verse 2. I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy endurance,signifies all things that they will, think, and do, thus all things oflove and faith in the spiritual and in the natural man. This isevident from the signification of “works,” as being the things thatare of the will and love (of which in what follows); and from thesignification of “toil,” as being the things that are of thought andfaith (of which also in what follows); and from the signification of“endurance,” as being the things done from will and thought, orthe things that these do. But it can with difficulty becomprehended that this is the meaning of these words, unless it isknown that all things done by man flow out from the interiorsbelonging to his mind, also that the mind is the all in everythingthat man does, and that the body is a mere obedience through