Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 231They should make to themselves friends of the unrighteousmammon (Luke 16:9);and where it is commanded that:They should borrow from the Egyptians gold, silver, and raiment,and take them away from them (Exod. 3:22; 12:35–36).By the “Egyptians” are signified knowledges of every kind whichthey used to falsify truths.[14] In Moses:I will cut off the soul that looketh unto them that have familiarspirits and unto wizards, to go a-whoring after them (Lev. 20:5, 6).In Isaiah:He entereth into peace, he walketh in uprightness. But draw yenear, ye sons of the enchantress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot(Isa. 57:2–3).In Nahum:Woe to the city of bloods, all in a lie, the horseman ascendeth, andthe flaming of the sword, and the flashing of the spear, a multitude ofthe slain; for the multitude of the whoredoms of the harlot, of themistress of sorceries, selling the nations through her whoredoms(Nahum 3:1, 3–4).In Moses:A covenant must not be made with the inhabitants of the land, lestthe sons and daughters go a-whoring after their gods (Exod. 34:15–16).That ye may remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and dothem; and that ye spy not after your own heart and your own eyes, afterwhich ye are wont to go a-whoring (Num. 15:39).In Revelation: