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נביאיך חזו לך שוא ותפל ולא גלו על עונך להשיב שביתך ויחזו לך משאות שוא ומדוחים׃
Apocalypse Explained #387
387. And with death. That this signifies the consequent extinction of spiritual life, is plain from the signification of death, as denoting the extinction of spiritual life (concerning which see above, n. 78, 186). That this is here signified by death is plain from the series of things in the internal sense; for it is said that power was given unto them to kill with the sword, with famine, and with death: and by the sword is signified falsity destroying truth; by famine, the deprivation of the knowledges of truth and good; whence by death is signified the extinction of spiritual life, for where falsity reigns, and where there are no knowledges of truth and good, there is no spiritual life; for it is acquired by the knowledges of truth and good applied to the uses of life. For man is born into all evil and the falsity thence, therefore he is also born entirely ignorant of all spiritual knowledges; in order, therefore, that he may be led from the evils and the falsities thence, into which he is born, and be led into the life of heaven, and be saved, it is necessary that he should learn the knowledges of truth and good, by which he can be introduced [into spiritual life] and become spiritual. From this series of things in the internal sense it is evident, that by death is here signified the extinction of spiritual life; this also is signified by spiritual death.
Psalms 108
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O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
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Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will Awake early.
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I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
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For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
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Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
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That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
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God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
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Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
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Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
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Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
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Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
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Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
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Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
