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Matthew 11:21

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21 Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the works of power had been·​·done in Tyre and Sidon that were·​·done in you, they would have repented long·​·ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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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)