730.启17:6.“我又看见那女人喝醉了圣徒的血，和为耶稣作见证之人的血”表该宗教由于玷污和亵渎了主、圣言、因而教会的神性真理与良善而变得疯狂。“那女人”表示天主教（723，725节）；“喝醉”表示在属灵之事上变得疯狂（721节）。“血”表示对圣言的歪曲、玷污和亵渎（327，379，681，684节）。“圣徒”表示那些通过圣言从主处于神性真理的人，抽象来说，表示主、圣言、因而教会的神性真理（173，586，664节）。“为耶稣作见证之人”抽象来说表示教会中通过圣言来自主的真理和良善（6，16，490，501，669节），在此表示被亵渎的这些真理和良善，因为经上说的是“圣徒的血”或“为耶稣作见证之人的血”，并论及“巴比伦”，而“巴比伦”也表示对圣言和教会的良善和真理的亵渎（717，718节）。从这些事明显可知，“我又看见那女人喝醉了圣徒的血，和为耶稣作见证之人的血”表示该宗教由于玷污和亵渎了主、圣言、因而教会的神性真理与良善而变得疯狂。
730. 17:6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. This symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion irrational because of its adulterating and profaning the Divine truths and goods of the Lord, of the Word, and so of the church.
The woman symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion, as in nos. 723, 725 above. To be drunk means, symbolically, to be irrational in spiritual matters (no. 721). The blood symbolizes their falsification, adulteration and profanation of the Word (nos. 327, 379, 681, 684). Saints symbolize people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word, and in an abstract sense the Divine truths themselves of the Lord, of the Word, and so of the church (nos. 173, 586, 664). The witnesses of Jesus symbolize in an abstract sense the truths and goods in the church from the Lord through the Word (nos. 6, 16, 490, 501, 669), here those truths and goods profaned, because the blood is called the blood of the saints and of the witnesses of Jesus, and the subject is Babylon, which also symbolizes a profanation of the goodness and truth in the Word and in the church (nos. 717, 718).
It follows from this that John's seeing the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion irrational because of its adulterating and profaning the Divine truths and goods of the Lord, of the Word, and so of the church.
730. [verse 6] 'And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus' signifies that form of religion being insane as the result of the adulterated and profaned Divine Truths and Goods of the Lord, of the Word, and of the Church therefrom. By 'the woman' is signified that form of religion, as above (723, 725). By 'to be drunk' is signified to be insane in spiritual things (721). By 'the blood' is signified the falsification, adulteration, and profanation of the Word (327, 379, 681, 684). By 'the saints' are signified those who are in Divine Truths from the Lord by means of the Word, and abstractly the Divine truths of the Lord, the Word, and the Church therefrom (173, 586, 666). By 'the witnesses of Jesus' are signified abstractly the truths and goods in the Church from the Lord by means of the Word (6, 16, 490, 506, 669), here those profaned, because it is said 'the blood of the martyrs or witnesses of Jesus,' and it is said of 'Babylon,' by which is also signified the profanation of the good and truth of the Word and the Church (717-718). From these considerations it is established that by 'I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus' is signified that form of religion being insane as the result of the adulterated and profaned Divine Truths and Goods of the Lord, the Word, and the Church therefrom.
730. Verse 6 (Revelation 17:6). And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, signifies that religious persuasion insane from the adulterated and profaned Divine truths and goods of the Lord, of the Word, and thence of the church. By "the woman" is signified that religious persuasion, as above, (723, 725); by "being drunken" is signified to be insane in spiritual things, (721). By "blood" is signified the falsification, adulteration, and profanation of the Word, (327, 379[1-7], 681, 684). By "saints" are signified they who, by the Word, are in Divine truths from the Lord, and abstractly, the Divine truths of the Lord, of the Word, and thence of the church, (173, 586, 666). By "the witnesses of Jesus" are signified abstractly the truths and goods from the Lord through the Word in the church, (6, 16, 490, 506, 668), here the same profaned, because it says "the blood of the martyrs" or "witnesses of Jesus," and is spoken of Babylon, by which is also signified the profanation of the good and truth of the Word and of the church, (717, 718). From these things it is evident, that by "I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus," is signified that religious persuasion insane from the adulterated and profaned Divine truths and goods of the Lord, of the Word, and thence of the church.
730. (Vers. 6.) "Et vidi Mulierem inebriatam ex sanguine sanctorum et ex sanguine testium Jesu," significat Religiosum illud insaniens ex adulteratis et prophanatis Divinis Veris et Bonis Domini, Verbi et inde Ecclesiae. -Per "Mulierem" significatur Religiosum illud, ut supra (723, 725); per "inebriari" significatur insanire in spiritualibus (721); per "sanguinem" significatur falsificatio, adulteratio et prophanatio Verbi (327, 379, 681, 684); per "sanctos" significantur illi qui a Domino per Verbum in Divinis Veris sunt, et abstracte Divina vera Domini, Verbi et inde Ecclesiae (173, 586, 666) per "testes Jesu" significantur abstracte vera et bona a Domino per Verbum in Ecclesia (6, 16, 490, 506, 668) 1, hic illa prophanata, quia dicitur "sanguis martyrum" seu "testium Jesu," et de "Babylone" per quam etiam significatur prophanatio boni et veri Verbi et Ecclesiae (717, 718). Ex his constat, quod per "vidi mulierem inebriatam ex sanguine sanctorum et ex sanguine testium Jesu" significetur Religiosum illud insaniens ex adulteratis et prophanatis Divinis veris et bonis Domini, Verbi et inde Ecclesiae.
Footnotes:
1. 668 pro "669"