Bible

Yeremiyah 51:63

⁶³ והיה ככלתך לקרא את הספר הזה תקשר עליו אבן והשלכתו אל תוך פרת׃

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Youths

This print, from a medieval French manuscript, shows a relatively bald Elisha cursing the youths as the bears attack. Elijah rides a chariot overhead, having been taken up to heaven shortly before.

Youths" or "Young men" generally represent intelligence or the understanding of truth.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 386; Apocalypse Revealed 620 [3]; Arcana Coelestia 5037 [3], 7668, 7724, 9390; The Apocalypse Explained 863 [2-6])

Bible

Lamentations 2:10

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.