127. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 4

Representation of the perverted church in the church. (2)

1-2 He should represent the falsities of the church, and the church besieged by them. (2)

3 He should represent the hardness of their heart, from which it is that they have no fear; (2)

4-8 he should also represent the church besieged by falsities of evil and evils of falsity. (2)

9-16 He should represent the falsification and adulteration of the sense of the letter of the Word, (2)

17 by which everything of the church has perished. (2, 3)

In Isaiah 63:2, the winepress signifies violence toward divine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 922[5])

In Lamentations 1:15, this signifies the production of falsity from evil, and so the adulteration of the Word, and aversion of the church.

In Matthew 21:23, this signifies that the Jewish Church has spiritual good. (Apocalypse Explained 922)

In Revelation 14:19, this signifies examining the quality of their works; for must from the grapes and oil from the olives are pressed out in winepress, and their quality determined by the products. (Apocalypse Revealed 651)

(सन्दर्भ: Apocalypse Explained 359; Lamentations 1)