Apocalypse Explained # 623
623. Verse 11. And he said to me, Thou must again prophesy upon peoples and nations and tongues and many kings.
11. "And he said to me, Thou must again prophesy," signifies Divine command to still teach the Word n. 624; "upon peoples and nations and tongues and many kings," signifies with all who are in truths and goods in respect to life, and at the same time in goods and truths in respect to doctrine, consequently to teach the Word in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine n. 625.
Mark 7:18-21
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He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
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because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
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He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
