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Ezekiel 40:42

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42 And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

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Smith, smootheth with the hammer

  

In Genesis 27:11, this signifies the respective quality of natural truth. (Arcana Coelestia 3527)

In Psalm 55:21, this signifies false as self-love. (Arcana Coelestia 3527)

In Luke 3:5, this signifies the removal of states of temptation with regeneration, and the transformation of falsities of ignorance into truths. (Arcana Coelestia 3527[3])

In Isaiah 41:7, 'Smith' relates to evil, and 'smootheth with the hammer,' to what is false.

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Isaiah 41:7

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7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.