The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 172

172. Internal Meaning of Daniel, Chapter 1 (1)

1-2 When the church among the Jewish nation had been destroyed, Babylon appropriated to herself all things pertaining to it. (2)

2-21 She wished to know all things of the church, and to acquire an understanding of them, and this was the beginning of Babylon. (2)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.

以賽亞書 39:7

⁷ 並且從你本身所生的眾子，其中必有被擄去、在巴比倫王宮裡當太監的。