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Daniel 4:20

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20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

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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 10:14

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14 and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.