804. 'Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God' signifies that now there is salvation from the Lord, because now there is the reception of Divine Truth and Divine Good out of His Divine authority. By 'let there be salvation unto the Lord our God' is signified the acknowledgment and confession that from the Lord there is salvation. By 'let there be glory and honour to the Lord our God' is signified the acknowledgment and confession that from the Lord there is Divine Truth and Divine Good, thus the reception of them (n. 249, 629, 693). By 'let there be power unto the Lord our God' is signified the acknowledgment and confession that authority belongs to the Lord. To say that salvation, glory, honour and authority belong to the Lord is in accordance with the sense of the letter, as also elsewhere that blessing belongs to the Lord; but in the spiritual sense this is [to say] that because those things are in the Lord they are also from the Lord. Here [the spiritual sense] is that now they are with angels and men. This is because of the removal and rejection of the Babylonians who altered, weakened and impeded their influx from the Lord. This is like black clouds in the world [coming] between the sun and men, for just as the light of the sun of the world is altered, weakened and impeded by the interposition of black clouds, so likewise is the light of the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord, by the dark black falsities interposed from the Babylonians. The case is entirely similar, except that the one is natural and the other spiritual. In the spiritual world also falsities appear as clouds, dark and black in accordance with their quality. This is also the reason why not before but after the last judgment was the spiritual sense of the Word revealed, and [the truth] that the Only Lord is the God of heaven and earth. For by means of the last judgment the Babylonians were removed, and also the Reformed who made confession of faith alone. Their falsities were like dusky clouds interposed between the Lord and the men on earth, and also were like frosts that took away spiritual heat, which is the love of good and truth.