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Du drager ut för att frälsa ditt folk, för att bereda frälsning åt din smorde. Du krossar taket på de ogudaktigas hus, du bryter ned huset, från grunden till tinnarna. Sela.
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Du drager ut för att frälsa ditt folk, för att bereda frälsning åt din smorde. Du krossar taket på de ogudaktigas hus, du bryter ned huset, från grunden till tinnarna. Sela.
408. And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch. This symbolizes the appearance of their personal intelligence owing to a conceit arising from a hellish love.
A great star falling from heaven symbolizes the appearance of their personal intelligence owing to a conceit arising from a hellish love, because it appeared to burn like a torch, and because its name was Wormwood, as we are told in the next verse. Both a star and a torch symbolize intelligence, here the people's personal intelligence, because it appeared to burn, and everyone's personal intelligence burns with conceit, a conceit that arises from a hellish love, a love symbolized by the mountain burning with fire (no. 403). Wormwood symbolizes hellish falsity, which gives rise to and composes that intelligence.
To be shown that a star symbolizes intelligence, see nos. 151, 954, and that a torch or lamp does also, no. 796.