Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 55
55. But what vastation is, and whence it arose with the people of the Israelitish church, may be gathered from the passages in the Prophets where it is mentioned, which shall, therefore, be adduced therefrom in abundance. It must be premised, that, in the following and the subsequent passages from the Word, by "land" is signified the Church, because the land of Canaan is meant, in which the Church was; by "Zion," the Church as to the Word; by "Jerusalem," the Church as to doctrine from the Word; by the "cities" in that land, doctrinals; by the "mountains," "hills," "valleys," and "rivers," the formalities of the Church; and by the territories there, the general things of the Church, and these according to the representation of the tribe by which they were possessed.
Jeremiah 12:10-13
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Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
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They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12
Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
13
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
