23. 'Amen' signifies Divine confirmation out of the truth (veritas), thus out of His very Self. 'Amen' signifies the truth (veritas), and since the Lord was the Truth (Veritas) itself, therefore He so often said, 'Verily (Amen) I say unto you' as in Matt. v 18, 26; vi 16; x 23, 42; xvii 20; xviii 13, 18; xxv 12; xxviii 20; John iii 11; v 19, 24, 25; vi 26, 32, 47, 53; viii 34, 51, 58; x 7 [; xii] 24; xiii 16, 20, 21; xxi 18, 25; and in the things following in the Apocalypse:-
These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness Rev. iii 14.
This is the Lord. That the Lord is the Truth (Veritas) itself, He Himself teaches (John xiv 6; xvii 59).
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