150. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 27

1-2 Further concerning the church in respect to knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, which is Tyre. (2)

3-9 The Ancient Church had knowledges of truth and good of every kind and species, and by means of them it had intelligence. (2)

10-11 Truths that protected that church. (2)

12-13 Acquisitions and communications of all the knowledges. (2)

14-20 Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom by means of them.

21-23 Divine worship from them. (2)

24-25 Truths and goods of every kind and thus everything of the church acquired by means of them. (2, 17)

26-29 Through natural knowledges [scientiae] they have perished. (2)

30-34 Lamentation over their destruction, (2)

35-36 and that it is the countenance of hell. (2)

In Ezekiel 27:12, together silver, iron, tin, and lead from Tarshish represent different levels of truth in their proper order, right down to the most external kind of truth, which is truth as we receive it through our physical senses. (Arcana Coelestia 2967[3]) This also signifies a truth in the sense of the letter of the Word, and in the natural man. (Apocalypse Explained 540[6])

'Tin,' as in Ezekiel 22:18, relates to the literal sense of the Word, or the goods and truths of the natural self.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 540)