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After this it happened that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 8:1
Measure and Measuring Rod
In Revelation 21:15, this signifies to estimate the nature of reality, and so to understand and know that the Lord gives people in the good of love the ability to know the character of His New Church as to doctrine and its introductory truths and as to the Word from which these are drawn. (Apocalypse Revealed 313, 315, 904)
