Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 414[4] In Revelation:I saw no temple in the New Jerusalem, for the Lord God Almightyis its temple, and the Lamb (21:22).The New Heaven and the New Earth, when they will be ininternals, and hot in externals, are here treated of, therefore it issaid, that “there will be no temple,” but “the Lord God Almighty,and the Lamb.” “The Lord God Almighty,” is the Divine Itself ofthe Lord, and “the Lamb” is His Divine Human; from which alsoit is clear, that His Divine in the heavens is meant by “temple.”[5] In Isaiah:I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and Hisskirts filled the temple (6:1).“The throne high and lifted up,” upon which the Lord was seen tosit, signifies the Lord in respect to Divine truth in the higherheavens; but “His skirts” signify His Divine truth in the church.(That “skirts” signify, in reference to the Lord, His Divine truth inultimates, see Arcana Coelestia, n. 9917.) That:The veil of the temple was rent into two parts from the top to thebottom, after the Lord suffered (Matt. 27:51; Mark 15:34, 38; Luke23:45);signified the union of the Lord’s Divine Human with the Divineitself (see Arcana Coelestia,n.9670).[6] In the passages that follow “temple” signifies the Lord’sDivine Human, and at the same time heaven and the church. InDavid:I will bow myself down toward the temple of Thy holiness, andwill confess unto Thy name (Ps. 138:2).In Jonah: