Apocalypse Explained # 656
656. Verses 9, 10. And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations shall see their bodies three days and a half and shall not suffer their bodies to be placed in sepulchers. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and shall be glad, and shall send gifts one to another, because those two prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth.
9. "And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations shall see," signifies with all who are in the falsities and evils of religion, of doctrine, and of life (n. 657); "their bodies three days and a half," signifies the complete extinction of Divine truth and of Divine good n. 658; "and shall not suffer their bodies to be placed in sepulchers," signifies the rejection and damnation of such n. 659.
10. "And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and shall be glad," signifies the delights of infernal love with those who are opposed to the goods and truths of the church n. 660; "and shall send gifts one to another," signifies their consociation n. 661; "because those two prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth," signifies the anxiety of heart in the devastated church on account of these n. 662.
Ezekiel 23:45-47
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Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
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The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
