DFAITH 55
. . . in the course of timeevery church falls away
into two general religious principles that are evil,
one springing from the love of rule,
and the other from the conceit of self-intelligence,
and that in the Word
the former is meant and described by "Babylon,"
and the latter by "Philistia."
Now as Revelation
treats of the state of the Christian Church,
especially such as it is at its end,
it therefore treats both generally and specifically
of these two evil religious principles.
DFAITH 60
. . . Revelation 13 treats of the dragon's two beasts,
the first seen coming up out of the sea, in verses 1-10,
and the other one out of the earth, in verses 11-18.
. . . The first beast means faith separated from charity
in respect to confirmations of it
from the natural human self.
The other beast means faith separated from charity
in respect to confirmations of it from the Word,
which also are falsifications of truth.
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