762# 启12:15–16.蛇就在妇人后面，从口中吐出水来，像河一样，要使她被这河吞没。地却帮助妇人；那地开口吞了那龙从口中吐出来的河。
“蛇就在妇人后面，从口中吐出水来，像河一样”表示那些感官地，而非属灵地思考之人关于唯信称义的大量狡猾推理(763节)；“要使她被这河吞没”表示为使该教会被推理蒙蔽和驱散(763节)。
“地却帮助妇人；那地开口吞了那龙从口中吐出来的河”表示那些属于一个没有处于真理的教会之人提供帮助，不接受那些处于与仁分离之信的人的狡猾推理(764节)。
762. Verses 15, 16. "And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth."
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river," signifies crafty reasonings in abundance concerning justification by faith alone by those who think sensually and not spiritually; "that he might cause her to be carried away by the river," signifies that that church might be blinded and scattered by reasonings. "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth," signifies that those who are of a church which is not in truths afforded assistance, and did not accept the crafty reasonings of those who were [in] faith separated from [charity].
762. Verses 763; "that he might cause her to be swallowed up by the river," signifies that that church might be blinded and scattered by reasonings (n. 763). "And the earth helped the woman the earth opened her mouth swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth," signifies that those who are of the church that is not in truths afforded assistance did not receive the crafty reasonings of those who were in faith separated from charity 764).
762. VERSUS 15, 16.
"Et ejecit serpens post mulierem ex ore suo aquam tanquam flumen, ut illam a flumine absorptam faceret. Et adjuvit terra mulierem, et aperuit terra os suum, et deglutivit flumen quod ejecit draco ex ore suo."
15. "Et ejecit serpens post mulierem ex ore suo aquam tanquam flumen", significat astutas ratiocinationes in copia de justificatione per solam fidem ex illis qui sensualiter et non spiritualiter cogitant [n. 763] ; "ut illam a flumine absorptam faceret", significat ut ecclesia illa per ratiocinationes occaecaretur et dissiparetur [n. 763] .
16. "Et adjuvit terra mulierem, et aperuit terra os suum, et deglutivit flumen quod ejecit draco ex ore suo", significat quod illi qui ab ecclesia quae non in veris, operam praestiterint, et astutas ratiocinationes illorum qui a fide separata essent, non receperint [n. 764] .