The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 152
152. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 29
1-3 Of the natural man who, in things Divine, trusts nothing but His knowledges [scientifica]. (2)
4-5 Such will pervert the truths of the church by applying their knowledges to falsities. (2, 1)
6-7 Because truths have been perverted in this manner, all power, which is of truth, has been destroyed in their case, (3, 16)
8-12 and all truth will be utterly devastated, until they will no longer have truth. (3)
13-16 Nevertheless something of a church will be established out of those who are natural and in knowledges [scientifica]. (11)
17-18 Reasonings from knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man will not destroy knowledges [cognitiones] of truth with them; (11)
19-20 but these will be destroyed by reasonings from the natural man with those who trust knowledges [scientifica] alone, and have perverted the truths of the church. (2)
21 Those who are of the church that the Lord will establish will have truths of doctrine. (11, 11)
Leviticus 21:10
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And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
