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Hosea 9:9

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9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

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Prison, house of the

  

'The house of the prison' denotes the vastation of falsity and also falsity itself.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 5085)

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5085

Studere hoc loco

  
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5085. 'At the prison-house' means among falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'the prison-house' as the vastation of falsity, and consequently as falsity itself, dealt with in 4958, 5037, 5038.

  
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