Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 354“commit whoredom,” see above, n. 141,161). (That “Jerusalem” isthe church where there is true doctrine, see Arcana Coelestia, n.402,3654,9166. That “broidered work” is knowledges[scientificum], n. 9688. That “fine linen” is truth from a celestialorigin, n. 5319, 9469. That “bracelets” are truths and goods of thechurch, n. 3103, 3105. That “a chain [for the neck]” isrepresentative of the conjunction of interior and exterior things, n.5320; that “jewels for the nose]” and “earrings” are representativesof perception and obedience, n. 4551. That “a crown” meanswisdom, see above, n. 126. That “gold” is the good of love, seeArcana Coelestia, n. 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9510, 9874,9881; that “silver” is truth from that goad, n. 1551, 1552, 2954,5658. That “high places with divers colors” are truths falsified, n.796, 4005. That the “male” or “masculine” is truth, n. 749, 2046,4005, 7838; therefore “images of a male” are appearances of truth.)[8] In the same:Fine linen in broidered work from Egypt was thy spreading forth,blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thy covering. Syria was thymerchant in purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, withchrysoprasus. Dedan was thy merchant with garments of liberty for thechariot; Asshur and Chilmad with bales of blue and of broidered work,and with treasures of precious garments (27:7, 16, 20, 23, 24).Here Tyre and her wares are treated of, and “Tyre” signifies theknowledges of truth and good, and “trading” and “trafficking,”signify acquiring for oneself and communicating such knowledges;“purple and blue” signify the celestial love of good belonging to thenatural man; by “broidered work from Egypt” the like; “Syria” thechurch in respect to the knowledges of truth and good; “Asshur”the rational of that church; “Dedan” those who are in theknowledges of celestial things. From this it can be seen that the“wares of Tyre,” treated of in the whole of that chapter, do notmean wares, but each and all these things mean spiritual things,which man ought to acquire, be imbued with, and communicate.(That “Tyre” signifies the knowledges of good and truth, seeArcana Coelestia, n. 1201. That “Egypt” signifies the knowledges(scientificum) belonging to the natural man, n. 1164, 1165, 1186,