True Christian Religion #843
843. In that world as in the previous one the Jews are merchants dealing in various goods, especially precious stones, which they acquire by ways unknown to me from heaven, where they are plentiful. The reason they trade in precious stones is that they read the Word in its original language and regard its literal sense as holy; precious stones correspond to the literal sense. For the literal sense of the Word being the spiritual source of those stones, so that there is a correspondence between them, see above in the chapter on the Sacred Scripture (217-218). They are even able to fake imitations and induce the notion that they are genuine; but these people are severely punished by their rulers.
Ezekiel 37:23-26
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neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
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Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
