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Matthew 11:16

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16 But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like little·​·boys sitting in the markets, and summoning their fellows,


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Reed shaken with the wind

  

'A reed shaken with the wind,' as in Matthew 11:7, signifies the Word when explained at pleasure, because 'a reed' in the internal sense is truth in the extreme, like the Word is in the letter.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 9372; Matthew 11:8)