The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 149
149. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 26
Of the church as to knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, which is meant by Tyre. (2)
1-2 They imagine that all things of the church consist in knowledges [cognitiones]. (2, 4)
3 Thereby come falsities, which destroy the ultimates of doctrine. (2)
5-6 These and also affections for truth are destroyed by knowledges [scientifica]. (2)
7-12 Much reasoning from the natural man will destroy all truths, from which comes self-intelligence. (2, 15)
13-14 Thus all affection for spiritual truth will perish, so that nothing of the church will any longer remain. (3)
15-18 Their end will be in hell, which will cause the rest of them to be in terror. (3, 15)
19-21 When they have been cast into the hells, the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth will be evident to those who will be in heaven and in the church. (15, 11)
Ezekiel 26:19-21
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
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then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
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I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.
