AC 2015 - Kings and Priests

AC 2015 [1, 10]

From the signification of "nations" as being goods,
and from the signification of "kings" as being truths,
we can see the nature of the internal sense of the Word,
and also how remote it is from the sense of the letter.
He who reads the Word,
especially the historical portion,
has no other belief
than that the nations there are nations,
and the kings kings,
and thus that nations and kings are treated of
in the very Word itself.
But the idea of nations, as well as that of kings,
altogether perishes when it is received by the angels,
and in their place there succeed good and truth.
This cannot but appear as strange
and indeed as a paradox,
but still it is really so . . .
there is nothing in the Word that is not Divine,
and therefore celestial and spiritual. 

. . .  in the Lord . . . 
Kings represented His Divine truth,
and priests His Divine good.
All the laws of order
by which the Lord governs the universe as King, are truths;
but all the laws by which He governs the universe
and by which also He rules truths themselves, are goods;
for government from truths alone
would condemn everyone to hell;
but government from goods
lifts everyone out thence and uplifts him into heaven.