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Daar is Elam met haar ganse menigte rondom haar graf; zij zijn allen verslagen, de gevallenen door het zwaard, die onbesneden zijn nedergedaald tot de onderste plaatsen der aarde, die hun schrik hadden gegeven in het land der levenden; nu dragen zij hun schande met degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald.
'Rivers' or 'floods' signify temptations. 'Rivers' signify truths in abundance serving the rational self, and so, the understanding, for the purpose of doctrine and life.
In Isaiah 43:2, 'rivers' and 'waters' signify difficulties and falsities.
(références: Apocalypse Revealed 683)
683. 1 16:4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl onto the rivers and springs of water. This symbolizes influx into the understanding of the Word in these people.
The third angel's pouring out his bowl symbolizes, as in the case of the first two, an influx from the Lord springing from truths and goods - here an influx into the understanding of the Word in these people. For rivers symbolize an abundance of truths, of service to a person's rational self, thus his intellect, for doctrine and life (no. 409). And a spring of water symbolizes the Lord in relation to the Word, thus the Lord's Word, and therefore springs of water symbolize Divine truths gained from it (nos. 384, 409).
Notes de bas de page:
1. There is no number 682 in the original Latin text as published.
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