6. F
Face [facies]. What is signified by seeing the face of the Lord, illustrated n. 938. To see the face of Jehovah or the Lord signifies to know and acknowledge what he is, as to his Divine attributes, besides other things, shown n. 939. No one can see the Lord, such as he is in himself, and live, shown n. 939. The face of Jehovah or the Lord in an opposite sense signifies anger and aversion, because a bad man is angry, and turneth himself away, shown n. 939. Face, when spoken of the devil, signifies subtle artfulness, n. 562.
Faith [fides]. Faith is truth, illustrated n. 111, 129. Various things concerning the conjunction of faith and charity, illustrated n. 417. Faith is from charity, and that it is the form of charity, altogether like speech and sound, illustrated n. 655, illustrated n. 875. A comparison of charity and faith with heat and light, from which may be seen what faith is separated from charity, and what faith is conjoined with charity, illustrated n. 875, toward the end. The quality of faith from charity described, n. 451. Charity and faith are not anything, unless they exist in works, and in works they exist and subsist, illustrated n. 875. Charity and faith in man are inwardly in act, consequently in works, when they are in the will, because they are then in the endeavor, illustrated n. 875. A general or universal idea of faith concerning the Lord, and concerning salvation from him, n. 67. They who believe in the Lord have eternal life and are saved, shown n. 60, shown n. 553. The acknowledgment of the Lord and faith make presence, but affection and love effect conjunction, illustrated n. 937. That Paul and James agree in this, that the doers of the law are justified by God, shown n. 828, illustrated n. 417. For the doctrine of the Reformed concerning justification by faith, and concerning good works, see the doctrines of the Reformed in what is premised at n. 3. The Reformed establish their doctrine upon a single assertion of Paul, falsely understood, illustrated n. 417, 750. All who belong to the church in the Christian world agree in this, that man is justified without the works of the law, n. 391. Faith alone at this day constitutes the whole theology, and charity in no respect, n. 133. In what manner they defend their doctrine, by various kinds of discourses and reasoning, illustrated n. 838. All throughout the Christian world acknowledge faith alone as the only means of salvation, although in other things they disagree, illustrated n. 484. Faith alone is confirmed in various ways principally the faith of the clergy, but not so that of the laity, illustrated n. 426, 461, 677. Faith alone is easily received, the reason thereof, n. 539. There are three degrees of reception of the religious principle of faith alone: first, to acknowledge it; second, to confirm it in himself; third, to live according to it; that there are some who are in the first and second degree and not in the third and that they who are in the third are condemned; the quality of these described illustrated n. 634. Faith alone is also faith separated from charity, n. 388. Concerning those who in theological matters know nothing, except that faith alone is all, and of their habitation and lot, from experience, n. 456. The learned have attributed all salvation to faith, and nothing to charity, the reason whereof is that they have attributed everything to knowledge, and nothing to affection, because the former appears before the sight, whereas the latter does not appear, but faith proceeds from thought, and charity from affection, n. 908. Faith proceeds from thought, and charity from affection, illustrated n. 655. That dogma ought to be shunned, that a man is justified, that is, saved, by faith alone without the works of the law, illustrated n. 838. Various reasonings, by which they establish, that faith alone is the only means of salvation, illustrated n. 449. In the southern quarter are they who only acknowledge faith alone and the customary worship as means of salvation, and live as they like; concerning whom from experience, n. 442. Many of their visionary notions enumerated who confirm themselves in faith alone, n. 451. The interiors of faith, separated from charity, are the depths of satan, n. 143. They are specters, illustrated n. 675. See English. They seduce, and consequently they are dangerous, illustrated n. 144. Concerning those who separate faith entirely from charity, pretending that God, by virtue of faith, operates inwardly, even to the proper will of man, and it there turns itself about on the left side, and that thus the interiors of man’s mind are intended for God, and the exteriors for man, hence that God pays no regard to anything which relates to man that these were seen as turtles with two heads, illustrated n. 463. The interior reasoning of those who are in faith alone must first be detected and removed, otherwise the truths of faith appertaining to the new church, which is the new Jerusalem, cannot be received, for which reason they are treated of in Revelation, n. 483, 700. They who have confirmed themselves in faith alone cannot receive the two essentials of the new church, which are the acknowledgment that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth, and a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue. They reject them for three reasons, illustrated n. 500. They who have confirmed themselves in the falsities of that faith can with difficulty recede from them for this reason, because they are kept shackled as it were by the dragonists in the world of spirits, with whom they are in society, n. 563. They who are in faith alone, and pray from the form of their faith, cannot do otherwise than make God three and the Lord two; because they pray to God the Father, that he would have mercy for the sake of the son and send the Holy Spirit, illustrated n. 537, illustrated n. 611. They who have confirmed in themselves faith alone have so far shut up their understanding, as no longer to see any truth in the Word, illustrated n. 421. They who have confirmed in themselves faith alone have no truth from the Word but what is falsified, whence there is not any church among them, nor any religion, illustrated n. 541, illustrated n. 675. The doctrine of faith at this day is contrary to the Word, and that it falsifies the whole Word, n. 136, 404, 570. They who from confirmation are in faith alone know the truths from the Word, which are enumerated, but they have falsified all, made evident by a paper, on which those truths were written, which was placed on a table illuminated by a direct influx of light from heaven, also by touching the Word, which lay on another table, concerning which, illustrated n. 566. Concerning a leader in the doctrine of faith alone, who touched the Word placed on a table, and was thrown into a corner of the room, and became as it were dead, illustrated n. 566. The adultery of a son with his mother corresponds with the falsification of the truths of the Word by faith alone, and this is represented by the adultery of Reuben with Bilhah his father’s concubine, shown n. 134. They who, from confirmation are in faith alone are in the light of infatuation, which corresponds to the light which owls and bats see by, which light in itself is darkness, illustrated n. 566. Evil of life follows from the falsities of that faith, n. 698. It is of Divine providence of the Lord, that they who have confirmed themselves in faith alone falsify truths, lest if they knew holy truths, they should profane them, n. 686, 688. Concerning three hundred who had confirmed in themselves faith alone, and ascended into heaven, and in their descent were seen like dead horses; because a living horse signifies the understanding of the Word, and a dead horse the understanding of the Word destroyed, illustrated n. 611. In what manner the draconic spirits heal the wounds made by this tenet, that the works of the law are not necessary to salvation, which, nevertheless, does not accord with the Word, n. 576, 578. Concerning those who asserted that by the works of the law are meant the works of the law, of the Decalogue; what reply was made to them from heaven, n. 578. A pit of the abyss described, where they are who have confirmed faith alone, n. 421, 442. Concerning this tenet of their faith, that God the Father withdrew this grace and favor from the human race, and therefore reconciliation and satisfaction were necessary, but this is contrary both to scripture and reason, illustrated n. 484. Concerning the act of justification by faith alone, that they make themselves as to that act like a statue of salt, or Lot’s wife, illustrated n. 484. Concerning the state of justification by faith alone, and concerning the mysteries of it, that the goods of charity done by man contribute nothing to salvation, and that hence it follows that in such ease there is no religion, illustrated n. 484. Concerning those who make faith alone the only means of salvation, and concerning those who make charity the only means, also concerning a syncretist, illustrated 386. A discussion among certain spirits, whether faith is spiritual and not charity, or whether charity is spiritual and thence faith, illustrated n. 386. A discussion concerning faith and charity, the quality of charity, if to faith is assigned the first place, and the quality of faith, if to charity is assigned the first place; that in this latter state, faith is spiritual from charity, whereas in the former, faith is natural and charity also, compared with a mountebank walking on the palms of his hands, illustrated n. 655. The great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, is where they are who acknowledge faith alone as the only means of salvation, various things there concerning the mockery of charity, and concerning a plenary justification of man from sins by faith alone, illustrated n. 531. Concerning the pastimes of the dragon in an amphitheater, that by fantasies they introduced sheep and lambs, and afterwards lions and tigers, which tore them to pieces, illustrated n. 655. Concerning the dragon spirits, who were desirous to take by stratagem a certain city where charity reigned, asserting that they also professed faith and charity, only with this difference, that they assign to faith the first place, and to charity the second, but in vain, concerning which circumstance, illustrated n. 655. The dragons afterwards laid siege to that city, but that they were consumed by fire from heaven, illustrated n. 655. A discussion in a council concerning justifying faith without the works of the law and the conclusion therein, that faith produces good works, as a tree produces fruit; also an inquiry, whether it is so believed at this day by those who have confirmed themselves in faith alone and it was perceived to be quite the reverse, illustrated n. 417. From this conclusion the conjunction of faith with charity has not been found, illustrated n. 417. A temple or place of worship, in which was seen a representative image of faith separated from charity, described as to its quality, and that it was afterwards destroyed, and in the place thereof was seen the tabernacle, the temple, and the Lord, illustrated n. 926. Concerning the lot of those who have confirmed themselves in faith alone; in the spiritual world they are led to build; but what they build by day falls down by night and afterwards they are let into hell, illustrated n. 153. Also concerning their lot and destruction, illustrated n. 531. They who have confirmed in themselves faith alone, believe themselves to be wise, when nevertheless they are the foolish virgins, n. 433. They who, from confirmations, are in faith alone, believe that the doctrine thereof is so fortified that it cannot be impugned, n. 581. They who have confirmed themselves in faith alone are inveterate enemies against those who oppose that faith, but especially when they feel among them the sphere of the Lord, illustrated and shown n. 603. They who are in faith alone do not think about repentance, n. 450, illustrated n. 531. The Decalogue to them is a blank table, n. 461. They who think themselves free under faith, and not bondmen under the law, are bondmen, illustrated n. 578. They who are in faith alone do not reflect, neither are willing to reflect, upon evils of life in themselves, illustrated n. 531, 710. The dogma concerning faith alone is damnable, shown n. 838. They are the goats, illustrated n. 417, 838. The church commences from charity, and terminates in faith alone, n. 82. They who are in faith alone, will and teach that the understanding is to be kept in subjection to all things of their faith; but this tenet is hurtful, illustrated n. 224, 564, 575. That the understanding is to be kept in subjection to faith or what the church teaches is to be blindly believed, is retained from the Roman Catholic religion, which declares this dogma, n. 914. Thereby the way of light from the Lord is obstructed, insomuch that man can no longer be enlightened, illustrated n. 914.
Faithful [fidelis]. Faithful signifies those who are in faith in the Lord, and it signifies those who are in the inmost principles of the church, n. 744, 821. See Church.
Falsity [falsum]. Falsities are darkness and thick darkness, n. 110. There is evil of falsity and the falsity of evil, n. 379, 382. There is the falsity from evil, and falsity not from evil, and falsity not from evil appears before the Lord as truth, but under different colors, illustrated n. 625. Concerning good and falsity together, n. 97. Concerning the light of the confirmation of falsity together with its quality, illustrated n. 566, 695. See Confirmation.
False Prophet [pseudo propheta]. See Prophet.
Famine [fames]. See Hunger.
Fat, Fatness [pingue, pinguedo]. Fat things signify celestial goods and the affections thereof, and the delights of those affections, shown n. 782.
Father [pater]. Father signifies good; and when spoken of the Lord, the Divine good in him, n. 170 illustrated shown 613. The Lord by Father meant the Divine in him, illustrated n. 150, illustrated n. 170. God and the Father, also God and Jehovah signify the Lord as to the Divine truth, and as to the Divine good, n. 21. The Lord as to the Divine from which all things are [divinum a quo], as well as to the Divine human, is called the Father, shown n. 21, shown n. 613, shown n. 839. The kingdom of the Father comes, and the will of the Father is done as in heaven, so on earth, when the Lord is immediately approached, illustrated and shown n. 839. See also the Lord.
Fear, to Fear [timor, timere]. The fear of God, and to fear God signify the love of God, and to love God especially a fear and to fear to do anything against him, that is, against his commandments, inasmuch as this fear is in all love, illustrated and shown n. 527, illustrated n. 628. What holy fear is, illustrated and shown n. 56. What is introduced from fear does not remain, n. 164 toward the end. The fearful to fear signify be in no faith, shown 891. Fear signifies a fear of hell and of torments there, which is with the wicked, n. 527.
Feed, to, and Pastor [pascere, pastor]. To feed signifies to teach, and pastor or feeder, one that teaches, illustrated and shown n. 383.
Fig Tree [ficus]. A fig tree signifies natural good, shown n. 334, illustrated n. 875.
Filthy [immundus]. See Unclean.
Fire [ignis]. Fire signifies the Divine love, illustrated and shown n. 468. In the spiritual world love appears at a distance as fire, n. 422. Therefore fire upon the altar of burnt offering signifies the Divine celestial love, and for that reason it was commanded that it should burn constantly thereon, and that fire should be taken therefrom in the censer, and they should make incense, illustrated and shown n. 395. Fire, in the opposite sense, signifies infernal love, n. 422, 494. Fire and sulfur signify infernal love and lusts from that love, shown n. 452, 453. Fire signifies hatred, illustrated n. 655 toward the end, 766. What is signified by hail mingled with fire, n. 399. See Hail. It is attributed to Jehovah that he consumes with fire, illustrated and shown n. 494. The truth is testified by fire from heaven, shown n. 599. A consuming fire from heaven was a testification that they were in evils and falsities, shown n. 599; that they were in the lust of infernal love, illustrated 863. To be burnt with fire signifies the punishment of the profanation of what is holy, shown n. 748, 766.
First-begotten [primogenitus]. The Lord is called the first-begotten from the dead, which signifies that in his human he is the Divine good united to the Divine truth, illustrated and shown n. 17. First-begotten is spoken of the church, and that it is the first-begotten which from love of the will, through faith of the understanding, first exists in act or operation, illustrated n. 17. Since the church then first exists with man when the truth of doctrine conceived in the internal man is born in the external, illustrated n. 17.
First Fruits [primitiae]. First fruits signify what first springs up, and afterwards grows; and because in the first is contained all which follows in power, hence the first fruits were holy, illustrated and shown n. 623. First fruits signify such things as belong to the church, illustrated and shown n. 623.
Fish [piscis]. Fish signify sensual affections, which are the ultimate affections of the natural man, illustrated n. 290 toward the end. Fish also signify those who are in general truths, which are also ultimates of the natural man, shown 405. Fish also signify those who are in external falsities, shown n. 405.
Five [quinque]. Five signifies something and little, shown n. 427.
Flesh [caro]. Flesh signifies the good of the Word and of the church, illustrated and shown n. 832 Flesh signifies the proprium of man; shown 748. To eat the flesh of another sign to destroy the truths and goods of an other, shown n. 748.
Flood [flumen]. See River.
Fly, to [volare]. To fly signifies to perceive and to instruct, and when spoken of the Lord signifies to foresee and to provide, shown n. 244, also n. 245, 561, 831. See Wing.
Food [cibus]. They who are in the spiritual world are nourished by food, but food there is of a spiritual origin, concerning which various things are related, n. 152.
Foot [ped]. Feet signify what is natural, and when spoken of the Lord, the Divine natural illustrated and shown n. 468. To set the right foot on the sea, and the left on the earth signifies that the Lord has the entire church under his intuition and dominion, as well those therein who are in its externals as those who are in its internals, n. 470. The footstool of the Lord signifies the church on earth, illustrated and shown n. 49, likewise n. 470. To stand upon the feet signifies to be reformed as to the external or natural man, illustrated and shown n. 510.
Forehead [frons]. Forehead signifies love, both good and evil, illustrated and shown n. 347. The Lord looks at the angels in the forehead, and the angels look at the Lord through the eyes, because they look from the understanding of truth; hence proceeds conjunction, illustrated n. 380. To set a seal upon the foreheads signifies to separate and distinguish one from another, according to the love, n. 347. Written on the forehead signifies inherent in the love, n. 729. A name written on the forehead signifies acknowledgment from love and faith, n. 613.
Forty-two [quadraginta duo]. Forty-two months signifies complete to the end, when the new church begins illustrated and shown n. 489, 583.
Foundation, to Lay a Foundation [fundamentum, fundare]. The foundation of the world signifies the establishment of the church, shown n. 489. The foundations of the wall of the city new Jerusalem, and in general the foundations of the earth signify doctrinals of the church, illustrated and shown n. 902, 903, 914. The twelve foundations of the wall of the city new Jerusalem, which were of twelve precious stones, signify all of the doctrine of the new church from the sense of the letter of the Word, illustrated and shown n. 915.
Fountain [fons]. Fountain and fountains signify the Lord and the Word, shown n. 484, 683.
Four [quatuor]. Four is spoken of goods, and three of truths; hence four signifies good and the conjunction of good and truth, illustrated and shown n. 322. A fourth part signifies all good, n. 322. What is signified by the four angels, n. 342. See Angel. What is signified by the four winds, n. 343. See Wind.
Foursquare [quadratum]. Four-square and quadrangular signify what is just, illustrated and shown n. 905.
Fowl or Bird [avis]. Beasts, birds, and fish signify affections, perceptions, and thoughts, both in the good and evil sense, illustrated and shown n. 405, 831. See Beast and Fish. Birds signify such things as relate to the understanding and to the thought, and thence in both senses to counsels, illustrated and shown n. 757. Birds signify falsities from hell, also the infernal genii, who are in these falsities, illustrated n. 837.
France [Gallia]. Prophecies concerning the church in the kingdom of France, n. 740, 744. It dissents from the Roman Catholic religion, and that in many things it coheres with that religion in externals, but not so much in internals, illustrated n. 740. They do not acknowledge the Pope as head of the church, like a head which governs a body, but as one supreme who does not rule from himself, but from God, through the Word, n. 742. They acknowledge the Word as holy, as it is lived according to; also, that Divine power does not belong to any man, n. 741, 742. It is owing to the Lord’s Divine providence, that they have not yet proceeded farther, lest truths and falsities be commixed, n. 741. The Lord will convince them by the Word that he is to be approached as to his human, because it is Divine, illustrated n. 743, 744.
Frankincense, Censer [thus, thuribulum]. See Incense.
Free, Free Will [liberum, liberum arbitrium]. For the doctrine of the Reformed concerning free will, see their doctrines in the preface, n. 9.
Freemen and bondmen signify those who know and understand from themselves, and those who know and understand from others, n. 337, 604, 832.
Frog [rana]. Frogs signify reasoning proceeding from cupidities, because they croak, and are itching desires, shown n. 702.
Fruit [fructus]. Fruits signify the goods of love and charity, which are good works, illustrated and shown n. 934.
Full [plenum]. Full is spoken of man in whom are truths and goods, and empty in whom are falsities and evils, n. 160.
Furlong [stadium]. See Stadia.
Furnace [fornax, caminus]. A furnace is taken for its fire, n. 422. The smoke of a furnace signifies falsities of lusts proceeding from evil loves, shown n. 422.
