Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 55
55. But what vastation is, and whence it arose with the people of the Israelitish church, may be gathered from the passages in the Prophets where it is mentioned, which shall, therefore, be adduced therefrom in abundance. It must be premised, that, in the following and the subsequent passages from the Word, by "land" is signified the Church, because the land of Canaan is meant, in which the Church was; by "Zion," the Church as to the Word; by "Jerusalem," the Church as to doctrine from the Word; by the "cities" in that land, doctrinals; by the "mountains," "hills," "valleys," and "rivers," the formalities of the Church; and by the territories there, the general things of the Church, and these according to the representation of the tribe by which they were possessed.
Ezekiel 12:19-20
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and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
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The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
