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In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
Ezekiel 21:22
Creation
The creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis represents the new creation of the celestial church called 'Man'.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 9336, Genesis 1)
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 144
144. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 21
1-3 [See above, end of chapter 20.] (3, 5)
4-5 They will all perish by means of falsities of evil.
8-11 Destruction by means of interior falsities of evil. (3, 8)
12-13 Grief of the church because they cannot be converted. (3)
14-17 All things that remain will also perish, owing to falsities still more interior. (3)
18-22 Destruction will come by reasonings from falsities, and yet they will have worship, but from these falsities. (3)
23-24 Their worship will be vain. (3)
25-27 That church will come to its end when the Lord comes. (1, 3)
28-29 It will be the same with those who have falsified the sense of the letter of the Word. (3)
