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5. (Verse 1) The revelation of Jesus Christ. That this signifies Predictions by the Lord concerning the last times of the church, is evident from the signification of revelation as denoting predictions; and because these are from the Lord alone, it is said, "the revelation of Jesus Christ." The reason why the revelation, or the predictions, are concerning the last times of the church, is because those times are especially treated of. It may be imagined that the successive states of the church from beginning to end are treated of in the Apocalypse; but those states are not there the subject, but only the state of heaven and the church about the time of its end, when the Last Judgment takes place; the last times are consequently treated of. The successive states of the church, however, were predicted by the Lord Himself in Matthew (chapters 24 and 25), and also in Mark (chapter 13); but the things contained in these chapters are written in the Divine prophetic style, which is by correspondences, and consequently they are such as can be revealed and laid open only by means of the internal or spiritual sense. (It has therefore been granted me by the Lord to explain those things in Arcana Coelestia, at the beginning of chapters 24-40 of Genesis; which explanations may be seen there in their order, in the following places: n. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071.)
5. Verse 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, signifies predictions from the Lord respecting the last times of the church. This is evident from the signification of "revelation," as being predictions; and since these are from the Lord alone, it is said, "the revelation of Jesus Christ." The revelation, or predictions, are respecting the last times of the church, since those times are especially treated of. It may be supposed that in Revelation the successive states of the church from beginning to end are treated of; these, however, are not there treated of, but only the state of heaven and of the church near the end, when the Last Judgment takes place, thus the last times. The successive states of the church were foretold by the Lord Himself in Arcana Coelestia 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071)
5. (Vers. 1.) "Revelatio Jesu Christi." - Quod significet praedictiones de ultimis temporibus ecclesiae a Domino, constat ex significatione "revelationis", quod sint praedictiones; et quia sunt a solo Domino, dicitur "Revelatio Jesu Christi"; quod revelatio seu praedictiones sint de ultimis temporibus ecclesiae, est quia de illis imprimis agitur. Autumari potest quod in Apocalypsi agatur de successivis statibus ecclesiae a principio ad finem; ast ibi non agitur de illis, sed solum de statu caeli et ecclesiae circa finem, quando ultimum judicium, ita de ultimis temporibus. De successivis autem statibus ecclesiae praedictum est ab Ipso Domino apud Matthaeum (cap. Matthaeum 24 et Matthaeum 25), et quoque apud Marcum (cap. Marcum 13); sed illa quae ibi, Divino prophetico stylo, qui est per correspondentias, conscripta sunt, et inde talia quae solum per sensum internum seu spiritualem revelari et patere possunt. (Ideo datum est mihi a Domino explicare illa in Arcanis Caelestibus, ante capita Geneseos 26 ad 40: quae explicationes videantur ibi in suo ordine in sequentibus locis, n. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071.)