Treasure
In Genesis 43:23, Exodus 1:11, this signifies truth and good given by the Lord without the individual's knowledge. (Arcana Coelestia 5664)
This also signifies doctrines from falsified truths in the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 6661)
In Exodus 19:5 and Psalm 135:4, this signifies that divine truth should be with them more than with other people. (Arcana Coelestia 8768)
In Isaiah 30:6, this signifies knowledges in the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 3048[3])
In Isaiah 10:13, this signifies the truths of intelligence destroyed. (Arcana Coelestia 10227[4])
'Treasure,' as in Matthew 13:44, signifies divine truth in the Word.
(Riferimenti: Apocalypse Explained 840)
Daniel 5:2-4
2
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
3
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
