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Revelation 5:1

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1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

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Apocalypse Revealed #74

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74. "'These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand.'" This symbolizes the Lord, the source of all truths by means of the Word.

It may be seen in no. 51 above that "He who holds the seven stars in His right hand" is the Lord, and that the seven stars in His right hand are all concepts of goodness and truth in the Word, which exist therefore from the Lord in angels in heaven and in people in the church. Concepts of goodness and truth from the Word are truths.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.