805. [verse 2] 'For true and just are His judgments, for He has judged the great harlot who has corrupted the land with her whoredom' signifies because out of justice the profane Babylonian form of religion has been condemned, which has destroyed the Lord's Church by foul adulterations of the Word. By 'true and just are Thy judgments' are signified the Divine truths and goods of the Word in accordance with which judgment is effected by the Lord (n. 668, 689). These together are called 'justice', for by 'justice' where it treats of the Lord nothing else is signified; as [in] verse mm below; also Isa. lxiii 1; Jer. xxiii 5, 6; xxxiii 15, 16. By 'for He has judged the great harlot' is signified because the profane Babylonian form of religion has been condemned, which was treated of in the preceding chapter. That is called 'the great harlot' by reason of the adulteration and profanation of the Word. By 'who has corrupted the land with her whoredom' is signified which has destroyed the Lord's Church by foul adulterations of the Word. By 'her whoredom' is signified the adulteration of the Word (n. 134), and by 'the land' the Church (n. 285, 721).