Spiritual Meaning of REVELATION 13:17
Everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no silver, come ye, buy and eat; yea come, buy wine and milk without silver and without price (Isa. 55:1).
Ye have sold yourselves for nought, therefore ye shall not be redeemed by silver (Isa. 52:3).
With thy wisdom and with thy intelligence thou hast made for thyself wealth; and by the multitude of wisdom and by thy traffic thou hast multiplied for thyself wealth (Ezek. 28:4, 5).
Since by "Tyre" is signified the church as to the knowledges of good and truth, therefore it is said of Tyre:--
All the ships of the sea were for trading thy merchandise; Tarshish was thy merchant in silver; Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants, they gave thy merchandise with the soul of man. Syria was thy merchant in chrysophasus; thy wealth, thy traffic, thy merchandise, they that carry on thy merchandise, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall (Ezek. 27:1).
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, whose merchants are princes, and whose traffickers are the honored of the earth (Isa. 23:1-8)
The same is meant by trading, in the Lord’s parable:--
Of the man who travelled abroad, and gave his servants talents, that they might trade with them and gain (Matt. 25:14-30).
And of the other, who gave his servant ten pounds to trade with (Luke 19:12-26).
And of the treasure hid in a field; which when a man found, he hid, and sold all that he had and bought the field (Matt. 13:44).
And of him that sought beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one precious one, sold all and bought it (Matt. 13:45, 46).
Such have thy merchants been from thy youth; they wandered everyone from his quarter, none shall save thee (Isa. 47:15).
Author: E. Swedenborg (1688-1772). | Design: I.J. Thompson, Feb 2002. | www.BibleMeanings.info |