The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 142
142. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 19
1-2 The first thing of the church among the fathers of the Israelitish nation was destructive of all things of the church. (2)
3 That nation was likewise destroying all things of the church. (2, 16)
4-7 They were natural external, and opposed to all things of the church, and therefore they became perverted and were destroyed, (2)
8-9 and afterwards they were wholly destroyed by means of reasonings from the natural man. (2)
10-11 The Ancient Church was in Divine truths, (2)
12-14 but in the Israelitish and Jewish church all Divine truth was perverted and rejected. (2)
Ezekiel 20:14-17
14
But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
15
Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
