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Vậy nên phàm những người đều mê muội, lảng trí; thợ vàng đều xấu hổ về tượng đúc của mình; vì tượng đúc nó chỉ là giả dối, chẳng có hơi thở ở trong.
317. When He opened the fourth seal. (6:7) This symbolizes an examination by the Lord of those people on whom the Last Judgment would fall, as to their states of life, as in nos. 295, 302 above, with the difference described in what follows.
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.
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Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.