Ezekiel 20:17

¹⁷ Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

Midwife

'Midwives,' as in Exodus 1:15-21, signify receptions of truth in the natural principle. 'A midwife,' as in Genesis 26, signifies the natural level.

³¹ For this city hath been to me as a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,