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Apocalypse

Explained

According to the spiritual sense

in which the arcana there predicted

but heretofore concealed

are revealed

A posthumous work of

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Volume 3

(numbers 415–625)

Translated from the Original Latin by

John C. Ager

Revised by

John Whitehead

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

This version was compiled from electronic files of the

Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as

further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of

this PDF document does not match that of the

corresponding printed volumes, and any page references

within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not

all of the numerical references herein are not to page

numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are

not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears

both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its

pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases.

This version has not been proofed against the original, and

occasional errors in conversion may remain. To purchase the

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Swedenborg’s works, or the available volumes of the latest

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Contents

Editor’s Preface

Revelation 7

Revelation 8

Revelation 9

Revelation 10

Critical Notes

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED

1310

Editor’s Preface

This edition of Apocalypse Explained was translated by John C.

Ager and revised by John Whitehead. The text was electronically

scanned from the Swedenborg Foundation’s Standard Edition of

1911–1912. This process allowed the books to be completely reset

in a more readable typeface. It also allowed for updating certain

stylistic elements and for substituting contemporary spellings.

Arabic numbers have replaced the Roman numerals, and some of

the longer passages have been divided into paragraphs for greater

ease of reading. The Ager/Whitehead translation, however, has not

been materially altered.

Volume 3 of Apocalypse Explained continues Swedenborg’s verse-

by-verse exposition, or commentary, of the biblical text of the

Apocalypse, commonly known as Revelation or the Revelation of

John. This volume covers chapters 7 through 10. As was the

custom in his day, Swedenborg referred to the Psalms as the book

of David, and to the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,

Numbers, and Deuteronomy) as the books of Moses.

As with previous printings, the bold numerals in brackets, [ 2 ],

[ 3 ], etc., indicate divisions of Swedenborg’s longer numbered

sections that were added for the convenience of the reader by J. F.

Potts in his six-volume Swedenborg Concordance (London:

Swedenborg Society, 1888–1902). The numbers in parentheses (6),

(7), etc., are divisions of the exposition by the author. Italicized

letters following a number (518 a, 518 b ) are subdivisions added by

the Latin editor, S. H. Worcester.

The critical notes were originally compiled by Worcester when he

edited the Latin text for a Latin-English edition of Apocalypse

Explained published by the Swedenborg Foundation between 1889

and 1897. These notes were used sparingly by Whitehead in this

English edition, principally in cases where some difference in

meaning is involved. All the notes, referenced by superscripts in the

text, will be found at the end of the volume.

William Ross Woofenden

Sharon, Massachusetts

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED

1311

Revelation 7

1. After these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners

of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should

not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.

2. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun,

having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a great voice to the

four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea;

3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we have

sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

4. And I heard the number of those sealed; a hundred and forty-four

thousand sealed out of every tribe [of the sons] 1 of Israel.

5. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of

Reuben twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand

sealed.

6. Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of

Naphtali twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve

thousand sealed.

7. Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Levi

twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand sealed.

8. Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of

Joseph twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve

thousand sealed.

9. After these things I saw, and behold a great multitude, which no

one could number, out of every nation and all tribes and peoples and

tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in

white robes, and palms in their hands.

10. And crying with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God,

who sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

11. And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the

four animals, and they fell before the throne upon their faces, and

worshiped God.

12. Saying, Amen: the blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the

thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength unto our

God unto the ages of the ages; amen.

13. And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These clothed with

the white robes, who are they, and whence came they?

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