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You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
Ezekiel 4:1
Pollution
In Leviticus 22:6, this signifies a state of being in falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 1666)
In Hosea 9:3, this signifies appropriating things impure and profane derived from reasoning. (Arcana Coelestia 4581[10], Apocalypse Explained 654[56]) 'Pollution' denotes the truth of faith defiled.
(Riferimenti: Arcana Coelestia 4504)
Arcana Coelestia #4505
4505. 'Their flocks, and their herds' means that they destroyed rational good and natural good. This is clear from the meaning of 'flocks' as rational good, and from the meaning of 'herds' as natural good, dealt with in 2566.
