Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 219Also that he who seeth the Lord seeth the Father, because he is inthe Father, and the Father in him (John 14:7–11);And that no one hath seen the Father’s shape, nor heard his voice,and that it is the Lord alone, who is in his bosom, and who is one withhim (John 1:18; 5:37).(Besides many other places.)When they hear these truths they turn away, for they cannot denythem; but they are offended, and breathe forth the murder of allwho openly acknowledge the Lord, as was just said, because hatredis inrooted in them (see above, n. 114).[4] That they will hate all such for the Lord’s sake, he haspredicted in several passages; as in Matthew:In the consummation of the age, they shall deliver you up untoaffliction, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all [the nations] formy name’s sake (Matt. 24:9–10).In John:Jesus said, If the world hateth you, know that it hated me before ithated you. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. All thesethings will they do unto you for my name’s sake (John 15:18–25).(See besides the passages cited above from the Word, n. 122.)These things have been said that it may be known that by “Antipasmy faithful martyr, who was slain among you,” those are meantwho are hated because they openly acknowledge the Lord’s Divinehuman.138. Where satan dwelleth, signifies by those who are in thedoctrine of all falsities. This is evident from what was cited andshown above (n. 120 and 134). In what precedes we are told inwhat company those are who are in temptations, namely, they areamong those who are in falsities of every kind; for man as to hisbody is with men in the natural world, but as to thoughts andintentions he is with spirits in the spiritual world. When he comesinto spiritual temptation, he is among those spirits who are infalsities; these bind his thoughts and hold them as it were bound in