The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #150
150. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 27
1-2 Further concerning the church in respect to knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, which is Tyre. (2)
3-9 The Ancient Church had knowledges of truth and good of every kind and species, and by means of them it had intelligence. (2)
10-11 Truths that protected that church. (2)
12-13 Acquisitions and communications of all the knowledges. (2)
14-20 Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom by means of them.
21-23 Divine worship from them. (2)
24-25 Truths and goods of every kind and thus everything of the church acquired by means of them. (2, 17)
26-29 Through natural knowledges [scientiae] they have perished. (2)
Ezekiel 27:27
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Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
