447.启9:6.“马军的数目有二万万”表关于唯信的推理，其心智的内层塞满了这些推理，它们来源于大量纯粹邪恶的虚假。“军”（armies）表示良善与真理；在反面意义上表示邪恶与虚假；在此表示邪恶的虚假，如下文所述。“马兵”（horsemen）表示关于唯信的推理；因为“马”表示对圣言的理解（298节）；也表示已毁坏的对圣言的理解（305，313，320节）；因此，“骑马的”表示出自已毁坏的对圣言的理解的推理，在此表示关于唯信的推理；因为此处论述的是那些在其中已原则化的人。“二万万”并非表示数目上的两万万，而是表示大量；经上之所以提到“二”，是因为“二”论及良善，在反面意义上论及邪恶（322节）；“万万”（myriads）论及真理，在反面意义上论及虚假（287节）。由此可见，“马军的数目有二万万”表示关于唯信的推理，其心智的内层塞满了这些推理，它们来源于大量纯粹邪恶的虚假。
在圣言中，“军”表示天堂和教会的良善和真理，在反面意义上表示邪恶和虚假，这一点从“日月星辰”被称为“众军”（或译万象）的地方明显看出来；“日”表示爱之良善；“月”表示信之真理；“星辰”表示对良善与真理的认知；在反面意义上则表示反面（51，53，332，413节）；在以下经文中，前者和后者都被称为“众军”（或万象、诸军）：
祂的诸军都要赞美耶和华，日头月亮，你们要赞美祂，所有星辰，你们都要赞美祂。（诗篇148:2，3）
我亲手铺张诸天，天上万象也是我所命定的。（以赛亚书45:12）
诸天藉耶和华的话而造；其万象藉祂口中的气而成。（诗篇33:6）
天地及其万象都造齐了。（创世记2:1）
公山羊的角渐渐强大，高及天象，将些天象和星宿抛落在地；它自高自大，直达天象之君；因罪过的缘故，有军旅（host或天象）和常献的燔祭交付它；它将真理抛在地上。一位圣者说，这圣所与军旅被践踏的异象，要持续到几时呢？（但以理书8:10-14）
耶和华在军队前发出声音。（约珥书2:11）
他们在屋顶上向天上的万象烧香。（耶利米书19:13）
恐怕你下拜并事奉日月星，就是天上的万象。（申命记4:19；17:3；耶利米书8:2）还有一些经文中的也是如此（如以赛亚书13:4；34:4；40:26；耶利米书33:22；撒迦利亚书9:8；启示录19:14）。
由于“天上的万象（或众军、诸军、万军等）”表示天堂和教会的良善与真理，所以主被称为“耶和华泽巴斯”（Jehovah Zebaoth），也就是“万军之耶和华”；正因如此，利未人的供职被称为“服役”（military service）（民数记4:3，23，30，39）。在诗篇，经上说：
你们作祂的诸军，作祂的仆役，遵行祂旨意的，都要称颂耶和华！（诗篇103:21）
“列族的军队”（以赛亚34:2）表示教会中的邪恶与虚假。还有那攻击南方王的北方王的军队（但以理书11:13，15，20）也是。“北方王”是指教会中的邪恶的虚假；“南方王”是指教会中的良善的真理。主说：
当你们看到耶路撒冷被军队围困的时候，就知道它荒凉的日子近了。（路加福音21:20）
此处“耶路撒冷”表示教会，“军队”表示正在摧毁教会的邪恶与虚假。此处论述的是世代的末了，也就是该教会的末期。在约珥书，“军队”表示邪恶与虚假：我打发到你们中间的大军队，就是蝗虫、蝻子、蚂蚱、剪虫，那些年所吃尽的我要补还你们。（约珥书2:25）
“蝗虫”及其它昆虫表示最末端或最表层部位中的虚假（参看424节）。
447. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million. (9:16) This symbolizes their reasonings concerning faith alone, with which they had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.
Armies symbolize goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities - here falsities accompanying evil, as we will see presently. Horsemen symbolize reasonings concerning faith alone, because a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word (no. 298) and also a destroyed understanding of the Word (nos. 305, 312, 320). Horsemen consequently symbolize reasonings based on a destroyed understanding of the Word - here reasonings concerning faith alone, because the subject is people caught up in that faith. Two hundred million does not mean two hundred million, but an abundance. The number two is used because two is said in application to goodness, and in an opposite sense, to evil (no. 322); and a hundred million, or ten thousand times ten thousand, is said in application to truths, and in an opposite sense, to falsities (no. 287).
It can be seen from this that the number of the army of horsemen being two hundred million symbolizes reasonings concerning faith alone, with which these people had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.
[2] That armies in the Word symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities, can be seen from passages where the sun, moon and stars are called armies or hosts, and where the sun symbolizes the goodness of love, the moon the truth of faith, and stars concepts of goodness and truth, and the antithesis in an opposite sense (nos. 51, 53, 332, 413). All of these are called armies or hosts in the following passages:
Praise (Jehovah), all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars...! (Psalms 148:2-3)
My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. (Isaiah 45:12)
By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. (Psalms 33:6)
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (Genesis 2:1)
(The male goat's horn) grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground... He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host... And the host was sent under the yoke for its transgression, (because) it cast truth to the ground... Then... a holy one said..., "How long will... the sanctuary and the host be trampled under foot?" (Daniel 8:10-14)
Jehovah has given forth His voice before His army. (Joel 2:11)
...(on the roofs of the houses) they have burned incense to all the host of heaven... (Jeremiah 19:13)
(Lest you bow down to and serve) the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the host of heaven... (Deuteronomy 4:19; cf. 17:3, Jeremiah 8:2)
So, too, Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26, Jeremiah 33:22, Zechariah 9:8, Revelation 19:14.
[3] Since the hosts of heaven symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, therefore the Lord is called Jehovah Zebaoth, or Jehovah of Hosts. And therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39).
Moreover, we read in the book of Psalms,
Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His will. (Psalms 103:21)
Evils and falsities in the church are symbolically meant by the armies of the nations in Isaiah 34:2; and by the army of the king of the north with which he came against the king of the south, in Daniel 11:13, 15, 20. The king of the north is the falsity accompanying evil in the church, and the king of the south is the truth accompanying goodness in it.
The Lord says,
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. (Luke 21:20)
Jerusalem there symbolizes the church, and the armies symbolize the evils and falsities that will devastate it. The subject is the end of the age, which is the final period of the church.
Evils and falsities are symbolically meant by armies in Joel,
I will restore to you the years that the locust, the beetle grub, the locust's larva, and the caterpillar has eaten, My great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)
To be shown that the locust and the rest symbolize falsity of the lowest sort, see no. 424 above.
447. [verse s6] 'And the number of the armies of horsemen two myriads of myriads' signifies the reasonings concerning faith alone, with which the interiors of their mind were crammed full, derived from sheer untruths in abundance. By 'armies' are signified goods and truths and in the opposite sense evils and untruths; here, the untruths of evil, concerning which something follows. By 'horsemen' are signified reasonings concerning faith alone because by a 'horse' is signified the understanding of the Word (298), and also the destroyed understanding of the Word (305, 312, 320). Consequently by 'horsemen' are signified reasonings derived from a destroyed understanding of the Word, here concerning faith alone because it treats of those who are in that faith. By 'two myriads of myriads' is not understood so many in number, but a great abundance. 'Two' are mentioned because 'two' are predicated of good, and in the opposite sense of evil (322), and 'myriads' are predicated of truths, and in the opposite sense of untruths (287). Resulting from these considerations it can be seen that by 'the number of the armies of horsemen two myriads of myriads' are signified the reasonings concerning faith alone with which the interiors of their mind were full, derived from sheer untruths of evil in abundance.
[2] That by 'armies' in the Word are signified goods and truths of heaven and the Church, and in the opposite sense evils and untruths, can be established from those places where the sun, the moon and the stars are called 'armies,' and by 'sun' is signified the good of love, by 'moon' the truth of faith and by 'stars' cognitions of good and truth, and the contrary in the opposite sense (51, 53, 332, 413). All of these (illa et haec) are termed armies in these passages:
Praise Jehovah all His armies, praise Him sun and moon, praise Him all the stars. Psalms 148:2-3.
My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their armies have I commanded. Isaiah 45:12.
By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and the whole army of them by the breath of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their armies. Genesis 2:1.
The horn of the he-goat grew as far as to the army of the heavens, and it cast down unto the earth from the army and the stars, yea, it raised itself up as far as to the prince of the army: and the army was delivered to it on account of the continual [sacrifice] for transgression, because he cast down the truth (veritas) to the ground: the holy one said, How long is the holy place and the army given to be trodden down? Daniel 8:10-14.
Jehovah shall utter His voice before the army. Joel 2:11.
Upon the roofs of the houses they have offered incense to every army of the heavens. Jeremiah 19:13.
Lest thou shouldest bow down and be a servant to the sun, the moon and the stars, and every army of the heavens. Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3; Jeremiah 8:2.
Likewise. Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26; Jeremiah 33:22; Zechariah 9:8; Revelation 19:14.
[3] Since the goods and truths of heaven and the Church are signified by 'the armies of the heavens,' therefore the Lord is called Jehovah Zebaoth, that is, Jehovah of the armies and on this account the ministry of the Levites was called 'military service' (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39), and it is said in David:
Bless Jehovah all His armies, His ministers doing His will. Psalms 103:21.
Evils and untruths in the Church are signified by:
The army of the nations. Isaiah 34:2.
The army of the king of the north, with which he came against the king of the south. Daniel 11:13, 15, 20.
'The king of the north' is the untruth of evil in the Church, and 'the king of the south' is the truth of good there. It is said by the Lord:
When you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that the devastation thereof is near. Luke 21:20.
There by 'Jerusalem' is signified the Church, and by 'armies' the evils and untruths that were devastating it. It treats there of the consummation of the age, which is the last time of the Church. Evils and untruths are signified by the 'army' in Joel:
I will make up to you the years that the locust has consumed, the cankerworm, the bruchus, and the caterpillar, the great army which I have sent among you. Joel 2:25.
That untruth in the outermost parts is signified by the 'locust' and the rest, may be seen above (424).
447. Verse 16. And the number of the armies of horsemen was two myriads of myriads, signifies reasonings concerning faith alone, with which the interiors of their minds were filled, from the abundance of mere falsities of evil. By "armies" are signified goods and truths; and, in the opposite sense, evils and falsities; here, the falsities of evil, of which below. By "horsemen" are signified reasonings concerning faith alone; because by "a horse" is signified the understanding of the Word, (298); and also the understanding of the Word destroyed, (305, 313, 320); therefore by "horsemen" are signified reasonings from the understanding of the Word destroyed; here, concerning faith alone; because they who are principled therein are treated of. By "two myriads of myriads" are not meant so many in number, but a great abundance; "two" are mentioned, because two are predicated of good, and, in the opposite sense, of evil, (322); and "myriads" are predicated of truths, and, in the opposite sense, of falsities, (287). Hence it may be seen that by "the number of the armies of horsemen, two myriads of myriads," are signified reasonings concerning faith alone, with which the interiors of their minds were filled, from the abundance of mere falsities of evil.
[2] That by "armies," in the Word, are signified the goods and truths of heaven and the church, and, in the opposite sense, evils and falsities, may appear from those places where the sun, moon, and stars are called "armies" (hosts); and by "the sun" is signified the good of love; by "the moon," the truth of faith; and by "the stars," the knowledges of good and truth; and the contrary, in the opposite sense, (51, 53, 332, 413); both the former and the latter are called "armies" (hosts), in these passages:
Praise Jehovah all His hosts, praise ye Him sun and moon, praise Him all stars, (Psalms 148:2-3.
My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded, (Isaiah 45:12).
By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth, (Psalms 33:6).
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them, (Genesis 2:1).
The horn of the he-goat grew even to the host of the heavens; and it cast down unto the earth from the host and from the stars; yea, it raised itself up even to the prince of the host: and the host was delivered to it on account of the continual sacrifice for transgression, because he cast down the truth to the earth: the Holy One said, How long is the holy place and the host given to be trodden down? (Daniel 8:10-14).
Jehovah uttered His voice before the army, (Joel 2:11).
Upon the roofs of the houses they have offered incense to all the host of the heavens, (Jeremiah 19:13).
Lest thou shouldst bow thyself down and serve the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the hosts of the heavens, (Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3; Jeremiah 8:2; so too in Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26; Jeremiah 33:22; Zechariah 9:8; Revelation 19:14).
[3] Since the goods and truths of heaven and the church are signified by "the hosts (armies) of the heavens," the Lord is therefore called "Jehovah Zebaoth," that is, Jehovah of armies (hosts); and on this account the ministry of the Levites was called a military service, (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39); and it is said in David:
Bless Jehovah, all His hosts, His ministers that do His will, (Psalms 103:21).
The evils and falsities in the church are signified by:
The army of the nations, (Isaiah 34:2).
The army of the king of the north with which he came against the king of the south, (Daniel 11:13, 15, 20).
"The king of the north" is the falsity of evil in the church, and "the king of the south" is the truth of good therein. It is said by the Lord:
When ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, know that its devastation is near, (Luke 21:20).
By "Jerusalem" the church is here signified, and by "armies" the evils and falsities which were devastating it. The consummation of the age is there treated of, which is the last time of the church. Evils and falsities are signified by armies in Joel:
I will recompense to you the years which the locust hath consumed, the canker worm, the caterpillar, and the palmer worm, the great army, which I have sent among you, (Joel 2:25).
That by "the locust" and the rest falsity in outermost things is signified, may be seen above, (424).
447. (Vers. 16.) "Et numerus exercituum equitatus duae myriades myriadum," significat ratiocinia de sola fide, quibus interiora mentis illorum referta erant, ex mere falsis mali in copia. - Per "exercitus" significantur bona et vera, et in opposito sensu mala et falsa, hic falsa mali, de quibus sequitur; per "equitatum" significantur ratiocinia de sola fide, quia per "equum" significatur intellectus Verbi (298), et quoque intellectus Verbi deperditus (305, 313, 320); 1inde per "equitatum" significantur ratiocinia ex intellectu Verbi deperdito, hic de sola fide, quia de iis, qui in illa sunt, agitur; per "duas myriades myriadum" non intelliguntur totidem numero, sed multa copia; quod dicantur "duae" est quia duo praedicantur de bono, et in opposito sensu de malo (322), et "myriades" praedicantur de veris, et in opposito sensu de falsis (287). 2Ex his videri potest, quod per "numerum exercituum equitatus duas myriades myriadum" significentur ratiocinia de sola fide, quibus interiora mentis illorum plena erant, ex mere falsis mali in copia. Quod per "exercitus" in Verbo significentur bona et vera Caeli et Ecclesiae, et in opposito sensu mala et falsa, constare potest ex locis ubi sol, luna, et stellae vocantur "exercitus," et per "solem" significatur bonum amoris, per "lunam" verum fidei, et per "stellas" cognitiones boni et veri, ac vicissim in opposito sensu (51, 53, 332, 413); illa et haec nominantur "exercitus" in his locis:
"Laudate Jehovam omnes Exercitus Ipsius, laudate Ipsum Sol et Luna, Laudate Ipsum omnes Stellae," (Psalm 148:2-3);
"Manus Meae expanderunt Caelos, et omni Exercitui eorum praecepi," (Esaias 45:12);
"Per Verbum Jehovae Caeli facti sunt, et per spiritum oris Ipsius omnis Exercitus eorum," (Psalm 33:6); 3
"Absoluti sunt Caeli et Terra, et omnis Exercitus illorum," (Genesis 2:1);
Cornu Hirci "crevit usque ad Exercitum caelorum, et dejecit in terram de Exercitu et stellis, imo usque ad Principem Exercitus extulit se: et Exercitus traditus super juge in praevaricationem, quia projecit veritatem in terram: Sanctus dixit, Quo usque datur Sanctum et Exercitus conculcationi," (Daniel 8:10-14);
"Jehovah edidit vocem Suam coram Exercitu," (Joel 2:11);
"Super tectis domuum suffiverunt omni Exercitui caelorum," (Jeremias 19:13);
Ne incurves te et servias soli, lunae, stellis, et omni Exercitui Caelorum, (Deuteronomius 4:19; 17:3; Jeremias 8:2).
(Similiter Esaias 13:4; 34:4; 40:26; Jeremias 33:22; Sacharias 9:8; Apocalypsis 19:14).
Quoniam per "exercitus Caelorum" significantur bona et vera Caeli et Ecclesiae, ideo Dominus vocatur "JEHOVAH ZEBAOTH," hoc est, Jehovah (Exemrcituu?); et ideo Ministerium Levitarum vocabatur Militia, (Numeri 4:3, 23, 30, 39);
et dicitur apud Davidem:
"Benedicite Jehovae omnes Exercitus Ipsius, Ministri Ipsius facientes voluntatem Ipsius," (Psalm 103:21).
Mala et falsa in Ecclesia significantur Per "Exercitum Gentium," (Esaias 34:2);
Per "Exercitum Regis septentrionis," quo venit contra Regem meridiei, (Daniel 11:13, 15, 20);
"rex septentrionis" est falsum mali in Ecclesia, et "rex meridiei" est verum boni ibi. Dicitur a Domino,
"Quando videritis Hierosolymam Exercitibus circumdatam, scito quod prope sit devastatio ejus," (Luca 21:20);
per "Hierosolymam" ibi significatur Ecclesia, et per "exercitus" mala et falsa, quae devastabunt eam; agitur ibi de Consummatione saeculi, quae est ultimum tempus Ecclesiae. Mala et falsa significantur per "exercitus" apud Joelem:
"Compensabo vobis annos, quos consumpsit locusta, melolontha, bruchus et eruca, Exercitus magnus, quos misi inter vos," (2:25).
Quod per "locustam" et reliqua significetur falsum in extremis, videatur supra (424).
Footnotes:
1. 320 pro "321"
2. 287 pro "336"
3. xxxiii. pro "lxiii."