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And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.
Ezekiel 21:23
Pour out
'Pouring out the vials upon the earth, which contained the plagues,' in Revelation 16:1, signifies influx of the reformed into the church, or into people who study and receive the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 16; Apocalypse Revealed 676)
Pain after circumcision
'The pain after circumcision,' as in Genesis 34:25, signifies lust. While a person is purifying from the love of self and of the world, which is what 'circumcision' represents, as is the case in regeneration, he is in pain and anxiety.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4496)
