67. Following here is an explanation of the foregoing verses:

"A ram which had two high horns…, the higher (of which) came up last," symbolizes people whose faith springs from charity.

"With the horn it struck to the west, to the north, and to the south" symbolizes the dispersal of evil and falsity.

"And became great" symbolizes the people’s increase.

"A male goat come from the west, across the surface of the whole earth," symbolizes people whose faith is divorced from charity, and their invasion of the church. The west is the evil inherent in the natural self.

"(Which) had a…horn between its eyes" symbolizes their own inherent intelligence.

"It ran at the ram…with savage force" symbolically means that they forcefully attacked charity and its accompanying faith.

"And broke [the ram’s] two horns…and cast it to the ground and trampled it" symbolically means that they completely dispelled both charity and faith; for someone who dispels the one, also dispels the other, inasmuch as the two go together.

"The (goat’s) large horn was broken" symbolically means that their own intelligence was not apparent.

"In place of it four horns came up" symbolizes applications of the Word’s literal sense in confirmation.

"Out of one of them came a little horn" symbolizes the argument that no one can fulfill the Law and do good of himself.

"(A horn) which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the beautiful [land]," symbolizes a resulting insurrection against everything connected with the church.

"To the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars…and trampled them." This symbolically means that in doing so they destroyed all concepts of goodness and truth that had to do with charity and faith.

"He…exalted himself to the Prince of the host; and from Him the continual [sacrifice] was taken away, and the habitation of His sanctuary was cast down." This symbolically means that as a result they annihilated everything having to do with worship of the Lord and with His church.

"It cast truth to the ground" symbolically means that they falsified the Word’s truths.

"…the evening [and] morning, (when) the sanctuary shall be made right," symbolizes the end of their church and the beginning of a new one.