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In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Ezekiel 21:22
Chiefs of the people
Chiefs of the people (Numbers 21:18) signify inferior truths such as those that are contained in the literal sense of the Word.
(Препратки: Arcana Coelestia 3424)
Pour out
'Pouring out the vials upon the earth, which contained the plagues,' in Revelation 16:1, signifies influx of the reformed into the church, or into people who study and receive the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
(Препратки: Apocalypse Explained 16; Apocalypse Revealed 676)
