เอเสเคียล 27:15
Many thanks to Philip Pope for the permission to use his 2003 translation of the English King James Version Bible into Thai. Here's a link to the mission's website: www.thaipope.org
Islands
When 'islands' are contrasted to 'earth' or 'mountains,' they signify the truths of faith, because they are in the sea. They signify doctrinal things which are rituals. 'Islands' signify peoples who are more remote from the worship of God. People who are steeped in the internal sense of the Word, such as angels, do not know what islands are, because they no longer have any concept of such places. Instead they have a perception of more remote worship, like the gentiles outside the church.
'Islands,' in Ezekiel 27:6, signify people in the church in a natural, materially-oriented state but still rational.
(Referencias: Apocalypse Explained 406; Isaiah 1, Isaiah 49, 49:1)
Luke 12:16-24
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He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
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He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
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He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
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"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
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So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
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He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
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Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
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Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
