487# “天上寂静”表示对教会具有这种品质或性质，以及它即将走到尽头的惊愕。这从接下来的内容清楚可知，这些内容描述了教会的毁灭，以及对所有没有教会，也就是说，没有真理与良善，或信与仁的结合在里面之人的诅咒或定罪；因为这种结合构成每个人里面的教会。由于当第七印被揭开时，这些事物在天上被感知到，从而占据天使的心智，所以才有了惊愕，因惊愕而有了寂静。“寂静或静默”具有许多含义；一般来说，它表示造成它的一切事物；在这些事物当中，惊愕尤其会引发它。
487. There followed silence in heaven.- That this signifies astonishment that the state of the church was such, and that its end was at hand, is evident from what follows, where its destruction is treated of, and the condemnation of all with whom the church was not, that is to say, with whom no conjunction of truth and good, or of faith and charity existed, for this conjunction constitutes the church with every one. Because these things were perceived in heaven, and engaged the minds of the angels when the seventh seal was opened, there was thence astonishment, and from astonishment, silence. Silence has several significations; in general it signifies all those things which cause it, and amongst these astonishment especially induces it.
487. There was silence in heaven, signifies astonishment that the church is such and that its end is at hand. This is evident from what follows, which describes the destruction of the church and the damnation of all in whom there was no church; that is, in whom there was no conjunction of truth and good or of faith and charity; for this conjunction makes the church in everyone. As these things, when the seventh seal was opened, were perceived in heaven, and therefore engaged the minds of angels, there was astonishment, and from astonishment silence. "Silence" has many significations; in general it signifies all things that cause it, and among these it is especially induced by astonishment.
487. "Factum est silentium in caelo." - Quod significet stuporem quod ecclesia talis, et quod finis ejus instet, constare potest ex sequentibus, ubi agitur de interitu ejus, et de damnatione omnium apud quos non ecclesia fuit, hoc est, apud quos nulla conjunctio veri et boni seu fidei et charitatis; haec enim conjunctio facit ecclesiam apud unumquemvis. Quia haec percipiebantur in caelo, et inde obversabantur animis angelorum, quando septimum sigillum apertum est, inde stupor, et ex stupore silentium. "Silentium" plura significat; in genere omnia quae faciunt illud, inter quae stupor imprimis illud inducit.