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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
'To hurt,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:6, signifies violation and profanation.
In Revelation 9:4, this signifies perverting the truths and goods of the church by crafty rationalizations from sensory scientific facts and fallacies.
'To be hurt of the second death,' as mentioned in Revelation 2:11, signifies sinking under evils and falsities from hell.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 9 [4]; Apocalypse Revealed 316)
246. About a supplication by certain of the Jews for the mercy of God the Messiah
When the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel was being explained, where the whoredom of the Church of Jacob's descendants is treated of, some of the Jews who said they had been from the sect of the Pharisees, when they had given their attention for some time to the inward meaning of the words, were so moved by truth that they devoutly implored the mercy of God the Messiah, confessing their sins. 1747, the 13th day of November (old calendar).