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Daniel 2:5

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5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Commentary

 

Mud, loam, or clay

  

In Psalm 40:27, this signifies horrible evils from which the Lord saves us. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 290)

In Isaiah 29:16 and 64:8, this signifies the good of which the mind or the man himself of the church is formed and from which proceed his reformation and regeneration. (Arcana Coelestia 1300)

In Daniel 2:33, this signifies goods from lower natural things. (Arcana Coelestia 2162[3])

In Nahum 3:14, this signifies falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 1296)

In John 9:6, this signifies reformation through truth from the literal sense of the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 239[19])

(References: Apocalypse Explained 355)