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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel 31:8
Edom
'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies people who are in evil and falsities derived there.
Root
'The dried up root,' as in Hosea 9:16, 17, signifies charity which could not bear fruit.
(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 1801; Malachi 4:1)
