635. [verse 10] 'He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God mixed with undiluted wine in the cup of His growing anger' signifies that they falsify the goods and truths of the Word, and imbue their life with the same when falsified. These things are signified by these words because by 'the wine of the wrath of God mixed with undiluted wine' is signified the truth of the Word falsified; and by 'the cup of His growing anger' is signified the truth by means of which there is good, likewise falsified; and by 'to drink' is signified to appropriate them, or to imbue their life with them. That by 'wine' is signified the Truth of the Word may be seen (n. 316); by 'the wine of the wrath of God', the truth of the Word adulterated and falsified (n. 632); by 'mixed with undiluted wine' is plainly signified what is falsified. The like is signified also by 'the cup' as by 'the wine' because the cup is the containing vessel. 'To drink' signifies to imbue the life with these [falsified truths] because these things have been said to those who are living in accordance with the doctrine of justification by faith alone, as may be seen just above (n. 634). By 'to mix wine' and 'the mixture' is signified the falsification of truth in David also:-
A cup is in the hand of Jehovah, and He has mixed the wine, filled it with the mixture, and poured it out, and all the wicked of the land shall drink Ps. lxxv 8 [H.B. 9].
[2] In the Word in many places 'wrath' is mentioned, and at the same time 'growing anger', and there 'wrath' is predicated of evil and 'growing anger' of untruth, because those who are in evil are wrathful and those who are in untruth become angry; and both in the Word are attributed to Jehovah, that is to the Lord, but it is understood that this is on the part of man against the Lord (quad sit hominis contra Dominum), as may be seen above (n. 525). That in the Word 'wrath' and 'growing anger' are mentioned together is plain from these statements there:-
Jehovah comes in growing anger and wrath; the land shall be violently moved out of its place in the day of the growing anger of His wrath Isa. xiii 5, 9, 13.
Asshur the rod of My wrath, I will command him against the people of My growing anger Isa. x 4-7.
I will fight against you in wrath and in growing anger Jer. xxi 5.
The wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and growing anger against all their armies Isa. xxxiv 2.
Jehovah will repay in growing anger and with His wrath Isa. lxvi 15.
I have trodden down the people in My wrath, and made them drunk in My growing anger Isa. lxiii 6.
My wrath and growing anger has been poured out upon this place Jer. vii 20.
Besides elsewhere, as Jer. xxxiii 5; Ezek. v 13; Deut. xxix 27; and 'the growing anger of wrath', Isa. xiii 13; Ps. lxxviii 49, 50; Deut. vi 14, 15. But in Isaiah:-
Only in Jehovah is there justice and strength, and all shall be ashamed who have grown angry against Him Isa. xlv 24.
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