AR 749
"For God has put it into their hearts
to carry out His purpose,
and to be of one mind
and give their kingdom to the beast."
(Revelation 17:17)
Since the harlot symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion,
and the ten
horns that will hate the harlot
symbolize Protestants,
it is apparent that carrying out God's purpose
means
symbolically that they judged
and concluded that they should
utterly
repudiate and renounce
the Roman Catholic religion
and expunge and
eradicate it in themselves.
And it is apparent as well
that to be of one mind
and give their
kingdom to the beast means, symbolically,
to unanimously judge and
conclude
that they should acknowledge the Word
and found the church on
it.
The beast symbolizes the Word,
and their kingdom symbolizes
the church and government over it . . ..
That God put it into their hearts
means symbolically
that their judgments came from the Lord.
AR 750
. . . though Protestants acknowledge the Word indeed,
and say that the church
is founded on it,
they nevertheless found the doctrine of their church
on a single saying of Paul,
that "a person is justified by faith
apart
from the deeds of the law" (Romans 3:28),
which they completely misunderstand
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