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But it was said to them, " How can you entertain such a thought? Is it possible for a rational inind ever to think that God is three, and the Lord two?" VII. Afterwards they turned to the Lutherans, saying, "That the Augustan Confession, and Luther taught, that the Son of God and the Son of Man in Christ are one person, and that He, as to his human nature also, is the true, omnipotent, and eternal God, and that as to this nature also, being present at the right hand of God Almighty, governs all things in heaven and earth, fills all things, is with us, and dwells and operates in us; and that there is no distinction of adoration, because by the nature which is seen, the divinity which is not seen is adored, thus that in Christ God is Man and Man God." On hearing this, they said, "Is it so?" And they looked round, and presently they said, "This is what we did not know before, therefore we are not able." But one or two of them said, "We have read and written concerning these things, but yet when we thought of them in ourselves from ourselves, they were only words of which we had no interior idea." VIII. At length, turning to the papists, they said, “Possibly you can name the 'Divine Human,' because you believe that in your eucharist, in the bread and wine and in every part, there is the whole of Christ, and also adore him as God, when you show and carry about the host; and likewise because you call Mary the mother of God, consequently you acknowledge that she brought forth God, that is, the Divine Human." They then attempted to pronounce it from those ideas of their thought concerning the Lord, but could not, by reason of their entertaining a material idea of his body and blood; and by reason of the assertion that the human and not the divine power is transferred by him to the pope. Then a certain monk got up, and said, "That he could think of the Divine Human, from the most Holy Virgin Mary, the mother of God, and the same of the saint of his monastery." And another monk came, and said, "From my idea of the matter, I could rather call his holiness, the pope, the divine human, than Christ; " but then some other monks pulled him back, and said, "Are you not ashamed of yourself?" After

this heaven was seen open, and there appeare as of flame, descending and influencing some then celebrated THE DIVINE HUMANITY OF T saying, “ Remove the idea of three gods, and b in the Lord dwells all the fulness of the Godh and that the Father and he are one, as the sou are one, and that God is not air or ether, but t Man, and then you will be brought into conjur heaven, and thereby have power from the Lo nounce the name 'Jesus,' and utter the word Human.'"

CHAPTER VI.

1. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the heard one of the four animals say, as with a voice Come and see.

2. And I saw, and behold, a white horse: and he him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: a forth conquering, and to conquer.

3. And when he had opened the second seal, I he cond animal say, Come and see.

4. And there went out another horse that was red, was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from and that they should kill one another: and there was him a great sword.

5. And when he had opened the third seal, I hear animal say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a b and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his ba

6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four anir measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I hear of the fourth animal say, Come and see.

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8. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. A was given uuto them over the fourth part of the earth, t sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the the earth.

d there appeared tongues fluencing some; and the HUMANITY OF THE LORD

hree gods, and believers ess of the Godhead bot eone, as the soul and ar r or ether, but that bes ught into conjunction w er from the Lord to utter the words Dr

VI.

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horse: and he that set of en unto him: and be wes

11. And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.

13. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a figtree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14. And the heaven departed as a scroll, when it is rolled together: and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeınan, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains;

16. And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

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horse," signifies, the understanding of truth and goo Word with these: "And he that sat on him had a fies, that they had the doctrine of truth and good fron by virtue of which they fought against the falses and are from hell: "And a crown was given unto him," token of combat: "And he went forth conquering, quer," signifies, victory over evils and falses to eter when he had opened the second seal, I heard the sec say, Come and see," signifies the same here as ab there went out another horse that was red,” signifies. standing of the Word destroyed as to good, and t life, in these: "And power was given to him that sa take peace from the earth,” signifies, the taking away spiritual security, and internal tra tranquillity: : "And that kill one another,” signifies, intestine hatreds, infestatio hells, and internal restlessness: "And there was give a great sword,” signifies, the destruction of truth by fa "And when he had opened the third seal, I heard th mal say, Come and see,” signifies the same here as ab I beheld, and lo, a black horse," signifies, the under the Word destroyed in these as to truth and thus as t "And he that sat on him had a pair of balances in signifies, the estimation of good and truth, of what h with these: "And I heard a voice in the midst of the f say," signifies, the divine protection of the Word by "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measure for a penny," signifies, because the estimation of good is so small as scarcely to amount to any thing: "An hurt not the oil and the wine,” signifies, that it is prov Lord, that the holy goods and truths which lie interiorl in the Word, shall not be violated and profaned: "An had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fou say, Come and see,” signifies, the same here as abov looked, and behold, a pale horse,” signifies, the unders the Word destroyed both as to good and as to truth = name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed signifies, the extinction of spiritual life and thence c "And power was given unto them over the fourth earth, to kill," signifies, the destruction of all good in th "With sword, and with hunger, and with death, and beasts of the earth," signifies, by falses of doctrine, E life, by the love of self, and by lusts: "And when he h the fifth seal," signifies, exploration from the Lord int of life of those who were to be saved at the day of the ment, and were in the mean time reserved: "I saw altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of for the testimony which they held," signifies, those rejected by the wicked on account of their life being co to the truths of the Word, and their acknowledgme Lord's Divine Humanity, and who were guarded by

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of truth and good from t on him had a bow," uth and good from the Wiad Inst the falses and evils wi given unto him," signifies orth conquering, and to nd falses to eternity: I, I heard the second ant same here as above: as red,” signifies, the we to good, and thence n to him that sat there the taking away of ca lity: "And that they so atreds, infestations fre there was given unteit on of truth by falses ten seal, I heard the third Same here as above: ifies, the understanding t and thus as to doctri of balances in his ban ruth, of what kind wh e midst of the four ima the Word by the Lond three measures of barley

that they might not be seduced: "And they cried with a loud voice," signifies, grief of heart: "Saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth," signifies, by reason that the last judgment was protracted, and that they who offer violence to the Word and to the Lord's Divine Humanity were not removed: "And white robes were given unto every one of them," signifies, their communication and conjunction with angels who are in divine truths: "And it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled," signifies, that the last judginent should yet be protracted a little, till they should be collected, who should be rejected in like manner by the wicked: “And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal," signifies, exploration from the Lord of their state of life, who were interiorly evil, upon whom the last judgment was to be executed: "And lo, there was a great earthquake," signifies, the state and terror of the church with those totally changed: "And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood," signifies, the adulteration of all the good of love in them, and the falsification of all the truth of faith: "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth," signifies, the dispersion of all the knowledges of good and truth: "Even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind," signifies, by the ratiocination of the natural man separated from the spiritual: "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together," signifies, separation from heaven and conjunction with hell: "And every inountain and island were moved out of their places," signifies, that all the good of love and truth of faith departed: "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman," signifies, those who, before separation, were in the understanding of truth and good, in the science of the knowledges thereof, in erudition, either from others or from themselves, and yet not in a life conformable thereto: "Hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains," signifies, that they were now in evils and in falses of evil: "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb," signifies, confirmations of evil by means of falsity and of falsity from evil, until they did not acknowledge any divinity in the Lord: "For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?" signifies, that they were made such of themselves by separation from the good and faithful on account of the last judgment, which otherwise they would not be able to abide.

mation of good and y thing: "And see thou that it is provided by the h lie interiorly concede ofaned: "And when oice of the fourth ani here as above: "And es, the understanding 1 as to truth: "And hie Il followed with him nd thence damnati the fourth part of the all good in the church: death, and with the doctrine, by exils of when he had opened e Lord into the stak day of the last jule 1: "I saw under the e Word of God, and es, those who went e being conformable owledgment of the arded by the Lord