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사람들은 모든 창기에게 선물을 주거늘 오직 너는 네 모든 정든 자에게 선물을 주며 값을 주어서 사방에서 와서 너와 행음하게 하니
In Genesis 12:11, this signifies joy in truth from a celestial origin. (Arcana Coelestia 1470)
In Genesis 29:17, this signifies delight in the affection for interior truths. (Arcana Coelestia 3821)
In Ezekiel 7:20, the 'beauty of his ornament' signifies the church and its doctrine.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 827)
694. Just as heaven, deriving as it does from the Lord, constitutes through mutual love one human being and one soul so to speak, and consequently has one end in view, which is to preserve and save all men eternally, so conversely does hell, deriving as it does from the proprium, constitute through self-love and love of the world, that is, through hatred, one devil and one frame of mind (animus), and consequently has one end in view, which is to destroy and condemn all men eternally. That this is the nature of their endeavours I have perceived thousands and thousands of times. Unless therefore the Lord were preserving everybody in every fraction of a moment, man would perish.