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There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:26
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 155
155. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 32
Lament over those who by knowledges [scientiae] have perverted the holy things of the church. (3, 3)
1-2 They pervert all truths of the church. (3)
3-8 They fall into all falsities of evil, until they no longer see what is good and true. (3)
9-10 Those who are outside the church are horrified at their falsities. (3)
11-12 They destroy all things of the church by reasonings from the natural man. (3)
13-16 They shall be cast into hell, that they may no longer pervert truths in those who are in an affection for truth. (15)
15 In hell they will be associated with those who have profaned the holy things of the Word; (15, 17)
24-25 also with those who have falsified truths of doctrine; (15)
26-30 with those who have falsified the sense of the letter of the Word.
31-32 All of these will be with those who by knowledges [scientiae] have perverted the holy things of the church, and thus they will be separated from those who are of the church, lest they persecute them. (15)
Nation
'A nation,' as in Genesis 21:18, signifies the spiritual church which should receive the good of faith.
In Isaiah 1:4, this signifies evils of the will, or lusts, while people signify falsities of the understanding, or persuasions. (Arcana Coelestia 622)
In Psalm 106:5, this signifies the Lord's kingdom. (Arcana Coelestia 1416[5])
In Ezekiel 29:15, this signifies the gentiles who will no longer be under the dominion of external truths. (Arcana Coelestia 409, 410)
In Micah 7:16, this signifies people who trust in themselves. (Arcana Coelestia 249)
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2699; Jeremiah 5, 5:17, Jeremiah 17)
