99. 6. Concerning the Last Judgment (Ezekiel 7:2-12). See Desolation.

A day of tumult (Ezekiel 7:7), a day of anger (verse 19).

The visitations of the city draw near (Ezekiel 9:1).

To stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah (Ezekiel 13:5).

That Jehovah hath redeemed them, and yet they have gone astray (Hosea 7:13).

I am Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not acknowledge any god beside Me, and there is no Savior beside Me (Hosea 13:4).

I will redeem them from the hand of hell: I will free them from death; I will be thy plague, O death: O hell, I will be thy destruction (Hosea 13:14).

There shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah shall redeem thee from the hand of thine adversaries (Micah 4:10).

I caused thee to go up out of the land of Egypt; and out of the house of bondage have I redeemed thee (Micah 6:4).

I will gather them, for I will redeem them (Zechariah 10:8).

5946. 'For your young children and your wives' means for those who as yet have no knowledge - no knowledge of the more internal teachings of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'young children' as those who do not as yet have any knowledge of those things; and from the meaning of 'wives' as affections for truth. For when 'men' means truths, as 'the sons of Jacob' do here, 'their wives' means affections for truth; and conversely, when 'men' means forms of good, 'their wives' means truths, though in the latter case the men are called 'husbands', 3236, 4510, 4823. Affections for truth, meant by 'wives' here, have no knowledge of the interior teachings of the Church except through the truths, which are their 'men'. Without truths affections are like the will without the understanding. To see and have knowledge of anything the will must use the understanding, where its sight or eye exists.