Arcana Coelestia #1299
1299. 1 Quod ‘bitumen fuit iis pro luto’ significet quod malum cupiditatis pro bono, constat ex significatione ‘bituminis’ et ex significatione ‘luti’ in Verbo: hic quia agitur de aedificatione tum Babylonicae, praedicantur talia quae aedificationi inserviunt, tu bitumen quia sulphureum et igneum, quibus significantur in Verbo cupiditates imprimis quae sunt amoris sui; hic per ‘bitumen’ mala cupiditatum ut et falsa inde, quae etiam sunt mala quibus turris, de qua in sequentibus, exstruitur; quod talia significentur, constat apud Esaiam,
Dies ultionis Jehovae; ... convertentur torrentes ejus in picem, et pulvis ejus in sulphur; et erit terra ejus in picem ardentem, 34:8, 9;
‘pix et sulphur’ pro falsis et malis cupiditatum: praeter alibi.
Notes de bas de page:
1. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
Daniel 7:13-14
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I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14
There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
