The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 91
91. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 25
1-3 The Lord to those with whom the church has been instituted. (11, 2)
4-7 He taught them continually by the Word, that they should refrain from evils, and not go away to any other worship than that of the Lord; but they did not obey. (2, 11)
8-11 Therefore everything of the church among them will perish, and they will be in temptations from those who profane things holy. (2)
12 Retribution will afterwards visit the tempters. (2, 11, 3)
13-14 It will so come to pass. (2, 11)
15-27 Knowledges [cognitiones] of truth and good, and also truths of every kind and sort will perish. (3)
28-30 This cannot otherwise than come to pass, even with those who are in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word. (3)
31-33 There is no longer any truth that has not been profaned. (3)
34-38 Lamentation by those who are in good, and in truths therefrom. (11)
Jeremiah 25:17-19
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Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
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To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
