723# 启12:5.她生了一个男孩子，是将来要用铁棒照管列族的；她的孩子被提到神和祂宝座那里去了。
“她生了一个男孩子”表示给被称为新耶路撒冷的教会的真理之教义(724, 725节)；“是将来要用铁棒照管列族的”表示这教义将凭来自属灵真理的属世真理的能力反驳并说服那些处于虚假和邪恶，却又在圣言所在的教会中的人(726, 727节)；“她的孩子被提到神和祂宝座那里去了”表示主对该教义的保护，因为它是给新教会的(728节)。
723. Verse 5. And she brought forth a male child, who is to tend (pascere) 1all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and his throne.
"And she brought forth a male child," signifies the doctrine of truth for the church which is called the New Jerusalem, "who is to tend all the nations with a rod of iron," signifies that this doctrine, by the power of natural from spiritual truth, will refute and convict those who are in falsities and evils, and yet are in the church, where the Word is; "and her child was caught up unto God and his throne," signifies protection of the doctrine by the Lord, because it is for the New Church.
Footnotes:
1. Greek, poimainein [in Greek].
723. Verse 5. (724, 725); "who is to tend all the nations with an iron rod," signifies that this doctrine, by the power of natural truth from spiritual, will refute and convince those who are in falsities and evils and yet are in the church, where the Word is (n. 726, 727); "and her offspring was caught up unto God and His throne," signifies the protection of the doctrine by the Lord, because it is for the New Church n. 728.
723. VERSUS 5.
"Et peperit filium masculum, qui futurus pascere omnes gentes virga ferrea; et raptus est fetus ejus ad Deum et thronum Ipsius."
5. "Et peperit filium masculum", significat doctrinam veri quae ecclesiae, quae Nova Hierosolyma vocatur [n. 724, 725] ; "qui futurus pascere omnes gentes virga ferrea", significat quae potentia veri naturalis ex spirituali convincet et arguet illos qui in falsis et malis sunt, et tamen in ecclesia ubi Verbum [n. 726, 727] ; "et raptus est fetus ejus ad Deum et thronum Ipsius", significat tutationem doctrinae a Domino quia pro Nova Ecclesia [n. 728] .