738# 启12:9.大龙被摔下来，就是那古蛇，又叫魔鬼和撒但，是迷惑全世界的；他被摔在地上，他的使者也同他被摔下去。
“大龙被摔下来，就是那古蛇”表示那些处于生活的邪恶，由此变得感官化，扭曲圣言、因而教会的一切事物的人与天堂分离，并被扔进地狱(739节)；“又叫魔鬼和撒但”表示因为他们内层处于来自地狱的邪恶和虚假(740节)；“是迷惑全世界的”表示败坏教会的一切事物的(741节)；“他被摔在地上，他的使者也同他被摔下去”表示那些邪恶及其虚假被判入地狱(742节)。
738. Verse 9. "And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which seduceth the whole world; he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
"And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent," signifies that those who were in evils of life, and who had thus become sensual, and had perverted all things of the Word and thus of the church, were separated from heaven and cast into hell, "called the devil and Satan," signifies, because they were interiorly in evils and falsities from hell; "which seduceth the whole world," signifies, that pervert all things of the church; "he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him," signifies that those evils and the falsities therefrom were condemned to hell.
738. Verse 9. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, that seduceth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
9. "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent," signifies that those who were in evils of life, and who had thence become sensual, and had perverted all things of the Word and thus of the church, were separated from heaven and were cast down into hell n. 739; "called the devil and Satan," signifies because inwardly they are in evils and falsities that are from hell n. 740; "that seduceth the whole world," signifies that pervert all things of the church n. 741; "he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him," signifies that those evils and their falsities were condemned to hell n. 742.
738. VERSUS 9.
"Et projectus est draco ille magnus, ille serpens antiquus, vocatus diabolus et satanas, seducens universum orbem, projectus est in terram, et angeli ejus cum illo projecti sunt."
9. "Et projectus est draco ille magnus, ille serpens antiquus", 1
significat quod separati e caelo ac dejecti in infernum illi qui in malis vitae sunt, et inde sensuales facti sunt, a quibus omnia Verbi et sic ecclesiae perversa sunt [n. 739] ; "vocatus diabolus et satanas", significat quia interius sunt in malis et falsis quae ab inferno [n. 740] ; "seducens universum orbem", significat quae pervertunt omnia ecclesiae [n. 741] ; "projectus est in terram, et angeli ejus cum illo projecti sunt", significat quod mala illa et falsa inde damnata sint inferno [n. 742] .
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