497.“又有权柄叫水变为血”表凡背离它们的人都会歪曲圣言的真理。 “水”表示真理（50节）；“血”表示对圣言真理的歪曲（379节）；因此，“叫水变为血”表示歪曲圣言的真理。对这句话的理解方式和前面是一样的，即那些背离新教会的两大基本要素的人只看到他们所陷入的虚假，若以圣言来确认这些虚假，他们就歪曲了圣言的真理。
497. And they have power over waters to turn them to blood. This symbolically means that people who turn away from these two essential elements falsify the Word's truths.
Waters symbolize truths (no. 50), and blood a falsification of the Word's truth (no. 379). Thus turning waters to blood symbolizes a falsifying of the Word's truths.
This has the same meaning as before, namely, that people who turn away from the two essential elements of the New Church cannot see anything but the falsities in which they are caught up, and if they use the Word to defend them, they falsify its truths.
497. 'And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood' signifies that those who turn away from these two Essentials will falsify the truths of the Word. By 'the waters' truths are signified (50); and by 'blood' the falsification of the truth of the Word (379). Consequently by 'to turn the waters into blood' is signified to falsify the truths of the Word. This is understood in like manner as before, namely, that those who turn away from the two Essentials of the New Church cannot but see the untruths in which they are, and if they confirm these by means of the Word they are falsifying the truths thereof.
497. And have power over the waters to turn them into blood, signifies that they who turn themselves away from these two essentials falsify the truths of the Word. By "waters" are signified truths, (50); and by "blood," the falsification of the truth of the Word, (379); therefore, by "turning the waters into blood" is signified to falsify the truths of the Word. This is to be understood in the same manner as before, namely, that they who turn themselves away from the two essentials of the New Church can see nothing but the falsities in which they are, which, if they confirm these by the Word, they falsify its truths.
497. "Et potestatem habent super aquas convertere illas in sanguinem," significat quod quid avertunt se a duobus illis Essentialibus, vera Verbi falsificent. - Per "aquas" significantur vera (50); et per "sanguinem," falsificatio veri Verbi (379); inde per "convertere aquas in sanguinem" significatur falsificare vera Verbi: hoc similiter intelligitur ut prius, nempe, quod qui avertunt se a duobus Essentialibus Novae Ecclesiae, non possint aliter quam videre falsa, in quibus sunt; quae si confirmant per Verbum, falsificant vera ejus.