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But behold, there shall be left in it those that escape, who shall be brought out of [it], sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, as to all that I have brought upon it.
'Sons of the stranger' signify counterfeit truths, or falsities. 'Our sons' signify the doctrines of truth, and 'our daughters,' the doctrines of good, as in Psalm 144:11-12.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 489; Psalms 144:11)
The three words, sword, famine and pestilence, appear in a group in 26 different Bible verses. That's not an accident. Sword, famine and pestilence describe a trio of bad things that can happen to us physically.
In the Word, those three words describe spiritual destruction we can bring upon ourselves if we believe false ideas and develop evil habits.
In Apocalypse Revealed 323, we read that:
1) a sword means the destruction of spiritual life by falsities,
2) famine means the destruction of spiritual life by evils
3) pestilence means a complete destruction.
Rev. Jonathan Rose provides an interesting Bible Study on this subject, in a related video, shown here.
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