The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #142
142. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 19
1-2 The first thing of the church among the fathers of the Israelitish nation was destructive of all things of the church. (2)
3 That nation was likewise destroying all things of the church. (2, 16)
4-7 They were natural external, and opposed to all things of the church, and therefore they became perverted and were destroyed, (2)
8-9 and afterwards they were wholly destroyed by means of reasonings from the natural man. (2)
10-11 The Ancient Church was in Divine truths, (2)
12-14 but in the Israelitish and Jewish church all Divine truth was perverted and rejected. (2)
Ezekiel 19:4-7
4
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
6
He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7
He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
