Commentarius

 

Islands

  

When 'islands' are contrasted to 'earth' or 'mountains,' they signify the truths of faith, because they are in the sea. They signify doctrinal things which are rituals. 'Islands' signify peoples who are more remote from the worship of God. People who are steeped in the internal sense of the Word, such as angels, do not know what islands are, because they no longer have any concept of such places. Instead they have a perception of more remote worship, like the gentiles outside the church.

'Islands,' in Ezekiel 27:6, signify people in the church in a natural, materially-oriented state but still rational.

(Notae: Apocalypse Explained 406; Isaiah 1, Isaiah 49, 49:1)


Bibliorum

 

2 พงศาวดาร 9:21

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21 เพราะเรือของกษัตริย์แล่นไปยังทารชิชพร้อมกับข้าราชการของหุราม กำปั่นทารชิชนำทองคำ เงิน งาช้าง ลิง และนกยูง มาสามปีต่อครั้ง


Many thanks to Philip Pope for the permission to use his 2003 translation of the English King James Version Bible into Thai. Here's a link to the mission's website: www.thaipope.org

Bibliorum

 

Isaiah 1:18

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18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.