AE 936 - "The Song of Moses and the Lamb"; AE 939 - "O Lord God Almighty"

AE 936 [1, 2, 4]

And they were singing
the song of Moses the servant of God,
and the song of the Lamb.
(Revelation 15:3)

. . . "the song of Moses and of the Lamb"
means the acknowledgment of
the commandments in the Word of both Testaments,
also the acknowledgment of
the Divine in the Lord's Human,
since these are what they were singing,
or what constituted their song.
In the first verse the Lord's works and His ways,
which mean His commandments, are glorified.
In the following verse the Lord is glorified,
and an injunction that all must fear Him,
because He alone is holy . . ..

. . . anyone who thinks in his heart that there is a God,
that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth,
that the Word is from Him,
and is therefore holy,
that there is a heaven and a hell,
and that there is a life after death,
is able to shun these evils.
But he is not able
who despises these truths
and casts them out of his mind,
and not at all he who denies them.
For how can one who never thinks about God
think that anything is a sin against God?
And how can one who never thinks about
heaven, hell, and the life after death,
shun evils as sins?
Such a person does not know what sin is.
Man is placed in the middle between heaven and hell.
Out of heaven goods unceasingly flow in,
and out of hell evils unceasingly flow in;
and as person is between
he has freedom to think
what is good or to think what is evil.
This freedom the Lord never takes away from anyone,
for it belongs to his life,
and is the means of his reformation.
So far, therefore, as a person from this freedom
has the thought and desire to shun evils
because they are sins,
and prays to the Lord for help,
so far the Lord removes them
and gives a person the ability to refrain from them
as if of himself,
and then to shun them.

. . . to shun evils as sins is the sign of faith.

AE 939

O Lord God Almighty,
(Revelation 15:3)

means because He is Divine good.
This is evident from the signification of "omnipotence,"
as meaning to be, to exist, to have ability, and to live,
from Himself;
and as all goods and truths are from Him
because they are in Him
it is said "Lord God;"
for He is called "Lord" from the Divine good,
and "God" from the Divine truth;
and as He has omnipotence
from the Divine good through the Divine truth,
it is said "Lord God Almighty."