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Ezekiel 21:28

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28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and thou shalt say: sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and to glitter,

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'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)

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 144

  
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144. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 21

1-3 [See above, end of chapter 20.] (3, 5)

4-5 They will all perish by means of falsities of evil.

6-7 Grief of doctrine. (3)

8-11 Destruction by means of interior falsities of evil. (3, 8)

12-13 Grief of the church because they cannot be converted. (3)

14-17 All things that remain will also perish, owing to falsities still more interior. (3)

18-22 Destruction will come by reasonings from falsities, and yet they will have worship, but from these falsities. (3)

23-24 Their worship will be vain. (3)

25-27 That church will come to its end when the Lord comes. (1, 3)

28-29 It will be the same with those who have falsified the sense of the letter of the Word. (3)

30-32 They will be cast into hell. (15)

  
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