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 represent the love for the Lord remaining in the Church, which was to bring forth the true doctrine—the man-child—and to become the new stage of the Church.

This becomes more and more apparent to him as he advances in the explication, and as he finds at the conclusion of the judgment a new heaven being formed of those from the Christian world who had in patience been awaiting the new light and now found their place in this heaven of the new church to be founded on earth. With this new understanding of the coming age of the Christian Church, as he came nearer its more particular description, he stayed his hand in the nineteenth chapter and laid this nearly completed work aside, not to be printed until by his friends after his death. Instead he now first published several smaller treatises, on "The Final Judgment" on "Heaven and Hell," "The Earths in the Universe," and "The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine." Then he took up the Apocalypse anew and in 1766 produced a much smaller work entitled "The Apocalypse Revealed," omitting in great part the numerous citations from other parts of Scripture which, with their explication,