4316. Quod in sensu interno historico per ‘usque ad diem hunc’ significetur in perpetuum quod tales, constat a significatione ‘usque ad diem hunc’ quod, ‘ubi in Verbo’ nominatur, sit perpetuum, de qua n. 2838. Quod posteritas illa talis fuerit a primis temporibus, constare potest ab ipsis filiis Jacobi, A Reubene quod cubuerit cum Bilha concubina patris sui, Gen. 35:22:

A Shimeone et Levi quod occiderint Hamorem et Shechemum, et omnes viros urbis illorum, et quod reliqui filii venerint super confossos, et depraedati sint urbem,

Gen. 34:1 seq. 27-29; ideo de illis Jacobus, tunc Israel, ¹ antequam moreretur, ita locutus est; de Reubene, Non eris superior, quia ascendisti cubilia patris tui, tunc indignum fecisti te, stratum meum ascendit, Gen. 49:3, 4:

et de Shimeone et Levi, In arcanum eorum ne veniat anima mea, cum congregatione eorum ne uniatur gloria mea, quia in ira sua occiderunt virum, et in proposito suo enervarunt bovem: maledicta ira eorum quia vehemens, et furor eorum quia gravis est; dividam eos inter Jacobum, et dispergam eos inter Israelem, Gen.

49:5-7.

[2] Qualis Jehudah fuit, etiam constare potest ex eo quod uxorem Canaanitidem duxerit, Gen. 38:1, 2, quod tamen contra praeceptum fuit, ut constare potest ex Abrahami verbis ad servum qui missus ad desponsandum Rebeccam filio suo Jishako, Gen. 24:3, 6, et a pluribus locis in Verbo; quod tertia pars gentis illius ex stirpe illa sit, nempe ex filio Shelah qui ex matre Canaanitide, ² Gen. 38:11; 46:12; videatur Num. 26:20; ³ 1 Chron. 4:21, 22: et porro a nefario facinore eorum et reliquorum filiorum Jacobi contra Josephum, Gen. 37:18 ad fin. Posteri eorum qui in Aegypto, quales fuerint, patet ab iis quae memorantur de illis cum fuerunt in deserto, ubi toties rebelles fuerunt, et dein in terra Canaane, ubi toties ⁴ idololatrae facti sunt; ⁵ demum quales fuerunt tempore Domini, mox supra n. ⁶ 4314 ostensum est: ⁷ quales hodie sunt, nempe contra Dominum, contra illa quae sunt Ecclesiae, et contra charitatem erga proximum, et ⁸ contra seipsos mutuo, notum est: inde constare potest quod gens illa perpetuo talis fuerit; ne itaque amplius opinetur aliquis quod apud illos aliqua Ecclesia fuerit, sed modo repraesentativum Ecclesiae, minus quod illi prae aliis electi fuerint.

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Earth" is a general word that can be thought of as a container for other more specific words, as ground, field, or garden. Each of these means a person in an ascending series as that person learns truths from the Bible, thinks about them, and tries to apply them to life. The series represents the way of becoming good and wise. "Earth" and "ground" are terms that can go either way, as in the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:4-8) there was both good ground and bad ground, but "field" and "garden" mean minds that are regenerating towards good. "Earth" in the Bible can mean a person or a group of like-minded people as in a church. But it refers specifically to the external of the person's mind, or of the general thought of the group. If heaven and earth are mentioned together, then both the internals and externals of the mind are meant – something to note when reading the creation story.

In Revelation the word "earth" is used both as a ground level as we use it in its natural sense and also as the sense of a group. The action in this book takes place in the great middle zone of the spiritual world, where people first go and where they are sorted out. There are both evil people and good there, and sometimes at the end of a church the evil can have great influence before a great judgment comes. This level of the spiritual realm is called the "earth" to which the dragon was cast down (Revelation 12:9) and to which the stars fell (Revelation 12:4). The "earth" that swallowed the dragon’s flood means those still-sincere people within the church who discounted the flood of the dragon's falsities (Revelation 12:15).