AR 507 - To Rejoice and Be Glad; AR 509 - Opposition

  AR 507

To rejoice and be glad symbolizes
a delight of the heart and soul's affection.
A delight of the heart's affection
is a delight of the will,
and a delight of the soul's affection
is a delight of the intellect,
for in the Word the heart and soul
mean a person's will and intellect.
Thus the people are said to rejoice and be glad,
even though joy and gladness
seem to be the same thing.
Present in the two, however,
is a marriage of the will and intellect,
which is also a marriage of goodness and truth,
a marriage that exists
in each and every particular of the Word . . ..

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AR 509

Because these two prophets tormented
those who dwell on the earth.
(Revelation 11:10)

This symbolically means that these
two essential elements of the New Church,
one having to do with the Lord
and His Divine humanity,
and the other teaching a life
in accordance with the Ten Commandments,
are opposed to the two essential elements
accepted in the Protestant Reformed Church,
one teaching a trinity of persons,
and the other teaching faith alone
as saving apart from works of the law;
and because of that opposition
the two essential elements of the New Church,
which is the New Jerusalem,
are objects of contempt,
distress, and repugnance.