Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 3866the mountain appeared “full of horses and chariots of fire roundabout Elisha” (2 Kings 6:17).[6] That a “chariot” signifies what is doctrinal, and a “horse”what is intellectual is evident also from other passages in the Word,as in Ezekiel:Ye shall be sated upon my table with horse and chariot, withmighty man and every man of war. So will I set my glory among thenations (Ezek. 39:20; Rev. 19:18);where the coming of the Lord is treated of. That by “horse andchariot” here are not signified horse and chariot, is plain toeveryone; for they were not to be sated upon the Lord’s table withthese, but with such things as are signified by “horse and chariot,”which are the things of the understanding and of the doctrine ofgood and truth.[7] Similar things are signified by “horses” and “chariots” in thefollowing passages. In David:The chariots of God are two myriads, thousands of peaceful ones;the Lord is in them; Sinai is in the sanctuary (Ps. 68:17).Jehovah covereth himself with light as with a garment, hestretcheth out the heavens like a curtain, he layeth the beams of hischambers in the waters, he maketh the clouds his chariots, he walkethupon the wings of the wind (Ps. 104:2–3).In Isaiah:The prophecy of the wilderness of the sea. Thus hath the Lord saidunto me, Set a watchman to watch, he will declare; so he saw a chariot,a pair of horsemen, a chariot of an ass, a chariot of a camel, and hehearkened a hearkening, a great hearkening; for a lion cried upon thewatchtower, Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and upon myward I am set all the nights; then in very deed lo a chariot of a man, apair of horsemen; and he said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen (Isa. 21:1,6–9).