The Apocalypse revealed - 1883 Author:Emanuel Swedenborg Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thereby, that man is scarcely capable any longer of being taught, and thus led by divine truths from the Lord. By blood is signified violence done to the Word, n... more ». 327, and the divine truth of the Word falsified and profaned, n. 379; for by the blood tut of the wine-press is meant the juice and wine from the clusters that were trodden, and the juice of the grape and wine have a similar signification, n. 316 ; by the bridles of the horses are signified the truths of the Word, by which the understanding is guided, for a horse signifies the understanding of the Word, n. 298 ; hence a bridle signifies truth by which the understanding is guided; even unto the bridles of the horses means quite into the mouth, into which the bridle is inserted, and by the mouth the horse drinks and feeds, therefore it also signifies that such violence is done to the Word by dire falsifications, that man is scarcely capable of being taught any longer, and thus of being led of the Lord by divine truths. By a bridle is also signified that by which the understanding is guided or led, Isaiah xxx. 27, 28 ; xxxvii. 29; and by the blood of the grapes is signified the divine truth of the Word, Gen. xlix. 11 ; Deut. xxxii. 14 ; but in the present instance it is used in an opposite sense. 654. For a thousand six hundred furlongs, signifies mere falsities of evil. By furlongs the same is signified as by ways, because furlongs are measured ways, and by ways are signified leading truths, n. 176, and, in an opposite sense, leading falses; and by a thousand six hundred are signified evils in the whole complex, for by a thousand six hundred the same .is signified as by sixteen, and by sixteen the same as by four, because sixteen is the product of four multiplied by itself, and four is said of good and of the conjunctio...« less