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38 105. In the Revelation it is written, These are they who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb; (vii. 14;) from which words it is manifest that by the blood of the Lamb is not to be understood the material blood of Jesus Christ, but His spiritual blood, which is the divine truth of His most Holy Word; for material blood is red, and it is absolutely impossible that any robes can be made white by washing in it.

106. It is written in the 107th Psalm, v. 28, Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses; in which words it is remarkable that trouble is expressed in the singular number, and distresses in the plural. It may not, perhaps, be easy to discover the whole mystery of wisdom involved in this mode of expression; but one thing is evidently implied by it, viz., that whensoever man, out of a sincere heart, applies for Divine relief under the pressure of any single trouble, he is sure to be delivered from multiplied distresses, and that, for this plain reason, because sincere and devout application and supplication to the Lord of heaven and earth never fails to open communication with Him; and communication leads to conjunction; and conjunction with Jesus Christ involves in it a sure deliverance. Thus it is an eternal law of the Divine Order that if one evil, or one hell, be opposed from a true heavenly principle, all evils and all the hells are opposed at the same time.

107. Every regenerate person is like Lazarus, the