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)