and this for thirteen years; so now from what I
have seen and heard it has been granted me to describe these, in the
hope that ignorance may thus be enlightened and unbelief dissipated.
Such immediate revelation is granted at this day because this is what
is meant by the Coming of the Lord.

[REFERENCES TO THE AUTHOR'S ARCANA COELESTIA.]

{Footnote 1} The consummation of the age is the final period of
the church (n. 4535, 10622).

{Footnote 2} The Lord's predictions in Matthew (24 and 25),
respecting the consummation of the age and His coming, and the
consequent successive vastation of the church and the final
judgment, are explained in the prefaces to chapters 26-40 of
Genesis (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).

{Footnote 3} Both in the wholes and in the particulars of the
Word there is an internal or spiritual sense (n. 1143, 1984,
2135, 2333, 2395, 2495, 4442, 9048, 9063, 9086).

{Footnote 4} The Word is written solely by correspondences, and
for this reason each thing and all things in it have a
spiritual meaning (n. 1404, 1408, 1409, 1540, 1619, 1659, 1709,
1783, 2900, 9086).

{Footnote 5} In the Word the "sun" signifies the Lord in respect
to love, and in consequence love to the Lord (n. 1529, 1837,
2441, 2495, 4060, 4696, 7083, 10809).

{Footnote 6} In the Word the "moon" signifies the Lord in
respect to faith, and in consequence faith in the Lord (n.
1529, 1530, 2495, 4060, 4696, 7083).

{Footnote 7} In the Word "stars" signify knowledges of good and
truth (n. 2495, 2849,4697).

{Footnote 8} "Tribes" signify all truths and goods in the
complex, thus all things of faith and love (n. 3858, 3926,
4060, 6335).

{Footnote 9} The coming of the Lord signifies His presence in
the Word, and revelation (n 3900,4060).

{Footnote 10} In the Word clouds signify the Word in the letter
or the sense of its letter (n. 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752,
8106, 8781, 9430, 10551, 10574).

{Footnote 11} In the Word "glory" signifies Divine truth as it
is in heaven and as it is in the internal sense of the Word (n.
4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429, 10574).

{Footnote 12} A "trumpet" or "horn" signifies Divine truth in
heaven, and revealed from heaven (n. 8158, 8823, 8915); and
"voice" has a like signification (n. 6771, 9926).