413.“日头的三分之一部分，月亮的三分之一部分，星辰的三分之一部分都被击打，以致日月星的三分之一部分黑暗了”表由于源自虚假的邪恶和源自邪恶的虚假，他们不知道何为爱，何为信，或任何真理。“三分之一部分”表示全部（400节）；“日头”表示爱（53节）；“月亮”表示聪明和信（332节）；“星辰”表示对取自圣言的真理与良善的认知（51节）；“黑暗”表示由于源自虚假的邪恶和源自邪恶的虚假而不得看见或知道。源自虚假的邪恶出现在那些具有宗教信仰的虚假，并确认它们，直到这些虚假看似真理的人身上；当他们照之生活时，就是出于虚假，或虚假的邪恶而行恶。而拥有源自邪恶的虚假之人则是那些不将恶视为罪的人，尤其那些通过属世人，特别是通过圣言进行推理，确认恶不是罪的人。确认本身就是源自邪恶的虚假，被称为邪恶的虚假。
“黑暗”（或暗）之所以具有这种含义，是因为光表示真理；当光被熄灭时，黑暗就来了。为了证实这一点，我们先引用类似启示录此处所论到“日月星”以及由于它们熄灭而产生黑暗的这些话的经文：
日头要变为黑暗，月亮要变为血，这都在耶和华大而可畏的日子未到以前。（约珥书2:31）
天上的众星群宿都不发光；日头一出就变黑暗；月亮也不放光。（以赛亚书13:10；24:21，23）
我将你扑灭的时候，要把天遮盖；以密云遮掩太阳，月亮也不放光；我必使天上的亮光都在你以上变为昏暗，使你的地上黑暗。（以西结书32:7，8）
耶和华的日子已经临近，日月昏暗，星宿无光。（约珥书2:1，10）
那些日子的灾难一过去，日头就变黑了，月亮也不发光，众星要从天上坠落。（马太福音24:29；马可福音13:24，25）
只要将思想提升一下，谁看不出这些地方所说的并非世上的日月星辰？
“黑暗”或“幽暗”表示各种虚假，这一点从以下经文明显看出来：
想望耶和华日子的有祸了；那日黑暗没有光明，耶和华的日子不是黑暗没有光明吗？不是幽暗毫无光辉吗？（阿摩司书5:18，20）
耶和华的日子必是黑暗幽冥、密云乌黑的日子。（西番雅书1:15）
那日，祂必俯察下地，看哪，尽是黑暗；光必因毁坏而变暗。（以赛亚书5:30；8:22）
看哪，黑暗遮盖大地，幽暗遮盖万民。（以赛亚书60:2）
耶和华使黑暗来到以先，当将荣耀归给祂，我们盼望光明，祂却使光明变为幽暗。（耶利米书13:16）
我们指望亮光，不料，却是黑暗；指望光明，却行在幽暗中；我们晌午绊脚，如在黄昏一样；我们在活人当中像死人一般。（以赛亚书59:9-10）
祸哉，那些以暗为光，以光为暗的人。（以赛亚书5:20）
在黑暗中行走的百姓看见大光。（以赛亚书9:2；马太福音4:16）；
清晨的日光从高处照亮坐在黑暗中死荫里的人。（路加福音1:78，79）
你若将你的灵魂给予饥饿的人，你的光就必在黑暗中升起，你的幽暗必如正午。（以赛亚书58:10）
那日，瞎子的眼必从迷蒙黑暗中得以看见。（以赛亚书29:18；42:16；49:9）
耶稣说，我是世界的光；跟从我的，就不在黑暗里行走，却要得着生命的光。（约翰福音8:12）
应当趁着有光行走，免得黑暗抓住你们；我到世上来，乃是光，叫凡信我的，不住在黑暗里。（约翰福音12:35，46）
我虽坐在黑暗里，耶和华却作我的光。（弥迦书7:8）
这就是审判：光来到世间；人不爱光，倒爱黑暗。（约翰福音3:19；1:4-5）
你里头的光若黑暗了，那黑暗是何等大啊。（马太福音6:23；路加福音11:34-36）
这是你们的时候，黑暗掌权了。（路加福音22:53）
在这些地方，“黑暗”表示要么由对真理的无知，要么由宗教信仰的虚假原则，要么由邪恶的生活所产生的虚假。论到那些陷入宗教信仰的虚假，并因此陷入生活的邪恶之人，主说，他们要被赶到外边黑暗里去（马太福音8:12；22:13；25:30）。
413. And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, and a third of them was darkened. This symbolically means that because of their evils springing from falsities and their falsities springing from evils, they did not know what love is, or what faith is, or any truth.
A third means, symbolically, all (no. 400). The sun symbolizes love (no. 53). The moon symbolizes intelligence and faith (no. 332). The stars symbolize concepts of truth and goodness from the Word (no. 51). To be darkened means, symbolically, to be unseen and unknown because of evils springing from falsities and falsities springing from evils.
Evils springing from falsities are found in people who adopt falsities having to do with religion and defend them to the point that they appear to be true. Then, when they live in accordance with them, they do evils as a result of the falsities, or the evils of falsity.
On the other hand, falsities springing from evils are found in people who do not regard evils as being sins, and still more in people who employ reasonings issuing from their natural self, and moreover from the Word, to establish in themselves that evils are not sins. Their very arguments are falsities springing from evils, and what we call the falsities of evil.
[2] Darkness symbolizes these falsities because light symbolizes truth, and when the light has been extinguished, darkness is left.
To confirm this we will first cite passages where things similar to those here in the book of Revelation are said regarding the sun, moon and stars, and darkness ensuing upon their being extinguished:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah. (Joel 2:31)
...the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. (Isaiah 13:10, cf. 24:21, 24:23)
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens..., I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will make dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land... (Ezekiel 32:7-8)
...the day of Jehovah... is at hand... The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness. (Joel 2:1, 10)
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven... (Matthew 24:29, cf. Mark 13:24-25)
Who, if he elevates his mind, cannot see that in these places it is not the world's sun, moon and stars that are meant.
[3] That darkness symbolizes falsities of various kinds is clear from these passages:
Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! ...It will be one of darkness, and not light... Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light? Very dark, without any brightness? (Amos 5:18, 20)
(The day of Jehovah will be) a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of clouds and overcast... (Zephaniah 1:15)
In that day... it will look to the land, which, behold, will be darkness...; and the light will grow dark in its ruins. (Isaiah 5:30, cf. 8:22)
...behold, the darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness the peoples. (Isaiah 60:2)
Give glory to Jehovah... before He causes darkness...; you look for light, but He turns it into thick darkness. (Jeremiah 13:16)
We look for light, but there is darkness and no brightness; we walk in thick darkness... We stumble at noonday as at twilight; among the living we are as dead men. (Isaiah 59:9-10)
Woe to those... who put darkness for light, and light for darkness. (Isaiah 5:20)
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. (Isaiah 9:2, cf. Matthew 4:16)
...the rising sun from on high (has appeared) to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death... (Luke 1:78-79)
If you give your soul to the hungry..., your light shall rise in the darkness, and your thick darkness shall be as the noonday. (Isaiah 58:10)
In that day... the eyes of the blind who are in thick darkness and gloom shall see. (Isaiah 29:18, cf. 42:16; 49:9)
(Jesus said,) "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12)
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you... I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. (John 12:35, 46)
When I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me. (Micah 7:8)
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness more than light... (John 3:19, cf. 1:4-5)
If... the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matthew 6:23, cf. Luke 11:34-36)
...this is your hour, and the power of darkness. (Luke 22:53)
Darkness in these places symbolizes falsity arising either from ignorance of truth or from some false tenet of religion, or from a life of evil.
Regarding people caught up in falsities having to do with religion, who are therefore caught up in evils in life, the Lord says that they should be "cast out into outer darkness" (Matthew 8:12, cf. 22:13; 25:30).
413. 'And a third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars, and a third part of them was darkened' signifies that by reason of the evils derived from untruths and the untruths derived from evils they did not know what love is, what faith is, nor anything true. By 'a third part' is signified all (400); by 'the sun' is signified love (53); by 'the moon' is signified intelligence and faith (332); by 'the stars' are signified cognitions of truth and good out of the Word (51); by 'to be darkened' is signified not to be seen or known by reason of the evils derived from untruths and the untruths derived from evils. Those have evils derived from untruths who adopt untruths of religion and confirm them till they appear as truths, and while they are living in accordance with them make evils out of the untruths, or evils of untruth. Those, however, have untruths derived from evils who do not reckon evils as sins, and still more those who, by reasonings out of the natural man and especially out of the Word, confirm with themselves that evils are not sins. The confirmations themselves are untruths derived from evils, and are called untruths of evil.
[2] 'Darkness' signifies those things because 'the light' signifies truth, and darkness is brought about when the light is extinguished. For confirmation, the passages will first be quoted where things similar to those here in the Apocalypse are said of the 'sun,' the 'moon' and the 'stars,' and of the 'darkness' originated by the extinguishing of them:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah comes. Joel 2:31 [H.B. Joel 3:4].
The stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not shine with their light (lux), the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not cause her light (lumen) to be bright [Isaiah 13:10].
Jehovah shall make a visitation upon the host of the height in the height, and upon the kings of the land upon the land, then shall the moon blush and the sun be ashamed]. 1Isaiah 24:21, 23.
When I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens, I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine, all the luminaries of light in the heavens will I black out over thee, and I will give darkness upon thy land. Ezekiel 32:7-8.
The day of Jehovah is near; the sun and the moon are blacked out, and the stars shall diminish their brightness. Joel 2:10.
Immediately after the affliction of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall down from heaven. Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24-25.
Who that elevates his mind is not able to see that it is not the sun, the moon and the stars of the world that are understood in these passages?
[3] That untruths of various kinds are signified by darkness is established from these:
Woe to them desiring the day of Jehovah; it is a day of darkness and not of light; is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light? thick-darkness and not brightness? Amos 5:18, 20.
The day of Jehovah is a day of darkness and of thick-darkness, a day of cloud and of clouding over, Zephaniah 1:15.
In that day he shall look down upon the land which, behold, is darkness, and the light shall grow dark in the destructions thereof. Isaiah 5:30; 8:22.
Behold darkness covers the land, and thick-darkness the peoples. Isaiah 60:2.
Give glory to Jehovah, before He cause darkness: we wait for the light, but He makes it into thick-darkness. Jeremiah 13:16.
We wait for the light, but behold darkness, and not brightness; we walk in thick-darkness; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the living as if dead. Isaiah 59:9-10.
Woe to them fashioning darkness into light, and light into darkness. Isaiah 5:20.
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light. Isaiah 9:2; [H.B. 1]; Matthew 4:16.
The day-spring from on high has appeared to those who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death Luke 1:[78], 79.
If thou shalt give thy soul to a hungry one, thy light shall rise in the darkness, and thy thick-darkness [shall be] as the noon-day. Isaiah 58:10.
In that day, the eyes of the blind, who are in thick-darkness and darkness, shall see. Isaiah 29:18; 42:16; 49:9.
Jesus said, I am the light of the world, he who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12.
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness lay hold of you: I, the Light, have come into the world, that everyone who believes in Me should not abide in darkness. John 12:35, 46.
When I sit in darkness, Jehovah is the light unto me. Micah 7:8.
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, but men have loved the darkness more than the light. John 3:19; 1:4-5.
If the light (lumen) that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness. Luke 11:34-36.
This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke 22:53.
By 'darkness' in these places is signified untruth originating either out of ignorance of truth, or out of an untrue principle of religion, or out of a life of evil. Of those who are in untruths of religion, and consequently in evils of life, the Lord says:
That they are to be cast out into outer darkness. Matthew 8:12; 22:13; 25:30.
Footnotes:
1. It appears that a passage and reference have been omitted here. The form of the quotation within the square brackets is the same as in Apocalypse Explained 401[20].
413. And the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, signifies that by reason of evils from falsities and of falsities from evils, they did not know what love is, or what faith is, or any truth. By "the third part" is signified all, (400); by "the sun" is signified love, (53); by "the moon" is signified intelligence and faith, (332); by "stars" are signified the knowledges of truth and good from the Word, (51); by "being darkened" is signified not to be seen or known by reason of evils from falsities and falsities from evils. Evils from falsities are with those who assume the falsities of religion, and confirm them till they appear as truths, and when they live according to them they do evils from falsities, or the evils of falsity. But those have falsities from evils, who do not regard evils as sins; and still more those who, by reasonings from the natural man, and more still from the Word, confirm with themselves that evils are not sins. The confirmations themselves are falsities from evils, and are called the falsities of evil.
[2] The reason that "darkness" signifies this is because light signifies truth; and when the light is extinguished, there comes darkness. In confirmation the passages will first be adduced, where similar things to those here in Revelation are said of "the sun, the moon, and the stars," and of "the darkness" arising from the extinction of them:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh, (Joel 2:31).
The stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not shine with their light; the sun shall be darkened in his rising; and the moon shall not make her light to shine, (Isaiah 13:10; 24:23).
When I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine; all the luminaries of light in the heavens will I make black over thee, and I will set darkness upon thy land, (Ezekiel 32:7-8).
The day of Jehovah is near; the sun and the moon are blackened, and the stars shall withdraw their brightness, (Joel 2:10).
Immediately after the affliction of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, (Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24-25).
Who, that elevates his mind, cannot see that the sun, the moon, and the stars of the world are not meant in these cases?
[3] That falsities of various kinds are signified by "darkness," is evident from these passages:
Woe to them that desire the day of Jehovah; it is a day of darkness and not of light: is not the day of Jehovah darkness, and not light, thick darkness, and not brightness? (Amos 5:18, 20).
The day of Jehovah is a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and of cloudiness, (Zephaniah 1:15).
In that day He shall look down upon the earth, which, behold, is darkness; and the light shall grow dark in its ruins, (Isaiah 5:30; 8:22).
Behold, darkness covereth the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, (Isaiah 60:2).
Give glory to Jehovah, before He cause darkness: we wait for light, but He maketh it thick darkness, (Jeremiah 13:16).
We wait for light, but behold darkness, and not brightness; we walk in thick darkness; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, as if dead among the living, (Isaiah 59:9-10).
Woe to them that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, (Isaiah 5:20).
The people walking in darkness see a great light, (Isaiah 9:2; Matthew 4:16).
The dayspring from on high hath appeared to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, (Luke 1:78-79).
If thou give thy soul to the hungry, then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thy thick darkness shall be as the noonday, (Isaiah 58:10).
In that day the eyes of the blind, who are in thick darkness and darkness, shall see, (Isaiah 29:18; 42:16; 49:9).
Jesus said, I am the light of the world; he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life, (John 8:12).
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness seize upon you: I am come a light into the world, that everyone that believeth in Me should not abide in darkness, (John 12:35, 46).
When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light unto me, (Micah 7:8).
This is the judgment, that light hath come into the world; but men loved the darkness more than the light, (John 3:19; 1:4-5).
If the light [lumen] that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness, (Luke 11:34-36).
This is your hour, and the power of darkness, (Luke 22:53).
By "darkness" in these places is signified falsity arising either from ignorance of the truth, or from a false principle of religion, or from a life of evil. Concerning those who are in the falsities of religion and thence in evils of life, the Lord says that they shall be cast into outer darkness, (Matthew 8:12; 22:13; 25:30).
413. "Et percussa est tertia pars solis, et tertia pars lunae, et tertia pars stellarum, et obtenebrabatur tertia pars illorum," significat quod propter mala ex falsis et falsa ex malis non scirent quid amor, quid fides, et ullum verum. - Per "tertiam partem" significatur omne (400); per "solem" significatur amor (53); per "lunam" significatur intelligentia et fides (332); per "stellas" significantur cognitiones veri et boni ex Verbo (51); per "obtenebrari" significatur non videri et sciri propter mala ex falsis et falsa ex malis.
Mala ex falsis sunt illis qui falsa religionis assumunt, et illa confirmant usque dum apparent sicut vera, et dum vivunt secundum illa, faciunt mala ex falsis, seu mala falsi; falsa autem ex malis sunt illis qui mala ut peccata non reputant, et magis qui per ratiocinia ex naturali homine, et insuper ex Verbo, apud se confirmant quod mala non peccata sint; ipsae confirmationes sunt falsa ex malis, et vocantur falsa mali. Quod "tenebrae" significent illa, est quia lux significat Verum, et exstincta luce fiunt tenebrae; ad confirmationem primum adducentur loca, ubi similia dicuntur quae hic in Apocalypsi de "sole, luna et stellis" et de "tenebris" oriundis ab exstinctione illorum:
"Sol vertetur in tenebras, et Luna in sanguinem, antequam venit dies Jehovae magnus et terribilis," (Joel 3:4 (B.A. 2:31));
"Stellae caelorum et Sidera illorum non lucebunt luce sua, obtenebrabitur Sol in ortu suo, et Luna non splendere faciet lumen suum," (Esaias 13:10; tum videatur 24:23); 1
"Obtegam cum exstinxero te Caelos, Solem nube obtegam, et Luna non lucere faciet lucem suam, omnia Luminaria, lucis in Caelis atrabo super te, et dabo Tenebras super terra tua," (Ezechiel 32:7-8);
Propinquus est dies Jehovae; "Sol et Luna atrati sunt, et Stellae contrahent Splendorem Suum," (Joel 2:10);
"Statim post afflictionem dierum illorum, Sol obscurabitur, et Luna non dabit lumen suum, et Stellae cadent de Caelo," (Matthaeus 24:29; Marcus 13:24-25).
Quis, qui elevat mentem, non videre potest, quod in his locis non sol, luna et stellae mundi intelligantur. Quod per "tenebras" significentur falsa varii generis, constat ex his:
"Vae desiderantibus diem Jehovae, ille tenebrarum et non Lucis; nonne Tenebrae dies Jehovae et non Lux, Caligo et non splendor," (Amos 5:18, 20);
Dies Jehovae "dies Tenebrarum et Caliginis, dies nubis et obnubilationis," (Zephanias 1:15);
"In die illo despiciet in Terram, quae ecce Tenebrae, et Lux Obtenebrescet in ruinis suis," (Esaias 5:30; 8:22);
"Ecce Tenebrae obtegunt terram, et Caligo populos," (Esaias 60:2);
"Date Jehovae gloriam, antequam Tenebras inducat: exspectamus Lucem, sed ponit illam in Caliginem," (Jeremias 13:16); 2
"Exspectamus Lucem, sed ecce Tenebrae, et non Splendores, in Caliginibus ambulamus; offendimus in meridie sicut in crepusculo, inter vivos sicut mortui," (Esaias 59:9-10);
"Vae ponentibus Tenebras in Lucem, et Lucem in Tenebras," (Esaias 5:20);
"Populus ambulans in Tenebris, vidit Lucem magnam," (Esaias 9:1 (B.A. 2); Matthaeus 4:16); 3
"Ortus ab alto apparuit illis qui in Tenebris et in umbra mortis sedent," (Luca 1:78-79); 4
"Si des famelico animam tuam, exorietur in Tenebris Lux tua, et Caligo tua sicut meridies," (Esaias 58:10);
"In die illo oculi caecorum, qui in Caligine et Tenebris, videbunt," (Esaias 29:18; 42:16; 49:9); Jesus dixit, "Ego sum Lux mundi: qui Me sequitur non ambulabit in Tenebris, sed habebit Lucem vitae," (Johannes 8:12);
Ambulate quousque Lucem habetis, ne Tenebrae vos apprehendant: Ego Lux in mundum veni, ut omnis qui credit in Me, in Tenebris non maneat," (Johannes 12:35, 46);
"Quando sedeo in Tenebris, Jehovah, Lux mihi," (Micham 7:8);
"Hoc est judicium, quod Lux venerit in mundum, sed dilexerunt homines magis Tenebras quam Lucem," (Johannes 3:19; 1:4-5);
"Si lumen quod in te Tenebrae sunt, Tenebrae quantae," ((Matthaeus 6:23); Luca 11:34-36);
"Haec est vestra hora, et potestas Tenebrarum," (Luca 22:53);
per "tenebras" in illis locis significatur falsum oriundum vel ex ignorantia veri, vel ex falso principio religionis vel ex vita mali. De illis qui in falsis Religionis, et inde malis vitae sunt, dicit Dominus, quod Ejiciendi sint in Tenebras exteriores, (Matthaeus 8:12; 22:13; 25:30).
Footnotes:
1. Esaias 13:10; tum videatur 24:23 pro "Esaias 24:21, 23"
2. 16 pro "18"
3. 16 pro "6"
4. 78, 79 pro "79"