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Daniel 4:13

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13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.

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Soothsayers

  

In Deuteronomy 18:10, this signifies people who destroy the goods and truths of the church by knowledges applied wrongly, and who learn and teach by means of falsities from the evils of the love of self and the world. (Arcana Coelestia 9188[8])

In Joshua 13:22, this signifies that sorceries could not destroy the representative church signified by Israel. (Apocalypse Explained 140)

In Daniel 5:11, see Diviners.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 3698)

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Isaiah 10:13

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13 For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit [on thrones]: