5# 启1:1. “耶稣基督的启示”表示主关于教会末期的预言。这从“启示”的含义清楚可知，“启示”是指预言；由于这些预言唯独来自主，所以经上说“耶稣基督的启示”。启示或预言是关于教会末期的，因为经上尤其论述这些时期。可以想象，《启示录》从头到尾都在论述教会的连续状态；然而，那里的主题并不是这些状态，而只是在教会将近结束时，就是最后的审判发生时，天堂和教会的状态，因而是末期。主自己在马太福音24和25章，以及马可福音13章预言了教会的连续状态；但这些章节所包含的内容都是以神性的预言风格，也就是通过对应来写的；因此，它们具有这种性质：它们只能通过内义或灵义来揭示和显明。所以主允许我在《属天的奥秘》中创世记26到40章的开头来解释这些事；这些解释可以按顺序在以下地方看到：3353–3356, 3486–3489, 3650–3655,3751–3757, 3897–3901, 4056–4060, 4229–4231, 4332–4335,4422–4424, 4635–4638, 4661–4664, 4807–4810, 4954–4959,5063–5071节。
5. (Verse 1) The revelation of Jesus Christ. That this signifies Predictions by the Lord concerning the last times of the church, is evident from the signification of revelation as denoting predictions; and because these are from the Lord alone, it is said, "the revelation of Jesus Christ." The reason why the revelation, or the predictions, are concerning the last times of the church, is because those times are especially treated of. It may be imagined that the successive states of the church from beginning to end are treated of in the Apocalypse; but those states are not there the subject, but only the state of heaven and the church about the time of its end, when the Last Judgment takes place; the last times are consequently treated of. The successive states of the church, however, were predicted by the Lord Himself in Matthew (chapters 24 and 25), and also in Mark (chapter 13); but the things contained in these chapters are written in the Divine prophetic style, which is by correspondences, and consequently they are such as can be revealed and laid open only by means of the internal or spiritual sense. (It has therefore been granted me by the Lord to explain those things in Arcana Coelestia, at the beginning of chapters 24-40 of Genesis; which explanations may be seen there in their order, in the following places: n. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071.)
5. Verse 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, signifies predictions from the Lord respecting the last times of the church. This is evident from the signification of "revelation," as being predictions; and since these are from the Lord alone, it is said, "the revelation of Jesus Christ." The revelation, or predictions, are respecting the last times of the church, since those times are especially treated of. It may be supposed that in Revelation the successive states of the church from beginning to end are treated of; these, however, are not there treated of, but only the state of heaven and of the church near the end, when the Last Judgment takes place, thus the last times. The successive states of the church were foretold by the Lord Himself in Arcana Coelestia 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071)
5. (Vers. 1.) "Revelatio Jesu Christi." - Quod significet praedictiones de ultimis temporibus ecclesiae a Domino, constat ex significatione "revelationis", quod sint praedictiones; et quia sunt a solo Domino, dicitur "Revelatio Jesu Christi"; quod revelatio seu praedictiones sint de ultimis temporibus ecclesiae, est quia de illis imprimis agitur. Autumari potest quod in Apocalypsi agatur de successivis statibus ecclesiae a principio ad finem; ast ibi non agitur de illis, sed solum de statu caeli et ecclesiae circa finem, quando ultimum judicium, ita de ultimis temporibus. De successivis autem statibus ecclesiae praedictum est ab Ipso Domino apud Matthaeum (cap. Matthaeum 24 et Matthaeum 25), et quoque apud Marcum (cap. Marcum 13); sed illa quae ibi, Divino prophetico stylo, qui est per correspondentias, conscripta sunt, et inde talia quae solum per sensum internum seu spiritualem revelari et patere possunt. (Ideo datum est mihi a Domino explicare illa in Arcanis Caelestibus, ante capita Geneseos 26 ad 40: quae explicationes videantur ibi in suo ordine in sequentibus locis, n. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071.)