And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints," signifies a religious persuasion inducing insanity from the falsities of evil from which violence is offered to Divine truths: "and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus," signifies violence offered to those truths of the Word which teach that the Lord alone is to be worshipped: "and, when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder," signifies a stupendous vision, in which were mysteries of heaven that were unknown to him.