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Και παντα τα δενδρα του αγρου θελουσι γνωρισει, οτι εγω ο Κυριος εταπεινωσα το δενδρον το υψηλον, υψωσα το δενδρον το ταπεινον, κατεξηρανα το δενδρον το χλωρον, και εκαμον το δενδρον το ξηρον να αναθαλλη. Εγω ο Κυριος ελαλησα και εξετελεσα.
Ιεζεκιήλ 17:24
Waters
'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.
'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.
'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.
'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.
'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.
'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.
'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.
'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.
(参照: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms＃140
140. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 17
How the Ancient Church was instituted by the Lord, and what it became among the Jewish nation (the eagle meaning the understanding, and Lebanon the rational of the church).
1-3 Those who were in the capacity to understand were brought to the church. (11, 2)
4-5 They were brought into the Lord's spiritual church, and instructed. (11, 2)
6 They became the church. (11, 2)
7-8 Others succeeded, who had not the rational of the understanding, of whom the church was to consist, and to whom all Divine truths were given, because the Word was given them, (11, 2)
9-10 but they utterly rejected all things of the church, so that they could not but be devastated of them. (2)
11-13 They destroyed them by reasonings from the natural man, (2)
14 excepting as yet a few, (2)
15-16 who, however, were natural external without an internal. (2)
17-18 Therefore they have destroyed those things which were of the church. (2)
20 They will perish by means of reasonings from the natural man, and will therefore be dispersed. (2)
22-24 The Lord will establish a new church of others, in their place. (11)
