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and onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
'To rend the garments' signifies mourning for truth lost or destroyed, or the loss of faith.
'Rending the garments' can also signify zeal for doctrine and truth, and humility.
(Verweise: Arcana Coelestia 4763, Genesis 37:29, 37:34)
In Revelation 13:13, this demonstrates how their falsities were heavenly truths. It is also a sign testifying that they were in evils and thence in falsities. (Apocalypse Revealed 599)