Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 359[17] In the same:The enemies shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take awaythe jewels of thine adorning (23:26).In Zechariah:Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and thus stood before theangel. And he said to those that stood before him, Take away the filthygarments from off him. And he said, I have made thine iniquity to passfrom off thee, in clothing thee with changed garments (3:3–5).In Lamentations :They have wandered blind in the streets, they have been pollutedwith blood; what they cannot pollute they touch with their clothes(4:14).From the signification of “garments” it can be known what ismeant by many statutes with the sons of Israel:That they should not put on mixed garments (Lev. 19:19; Deut.22:11);That a woman should not wear the vessels of a man, nor a man beclothed with the garments of a woman (Deut. 22:5);That they should wash their garments that they might be purified,and thus sanctified (Exod. 19:14; Lev. 11:25, 28, 40; 14:8, 8; Num.19:11 to the end);That in mourning for transgression against Divine truths theyshould put off their garments and put on sackcloth (Isa. 15:3; 22:12;37:1, 2; Jer. 4:8; 6:26; 48:37; 49:3; Lam. 2:10; Ezek. 27:31; Amos 8:10;Jonah 3:5, 6, 8);And that they should rend their garments (Isa. 37:1; andelsewhere).Also what this signifies: