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Ezekiel 20:1

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1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.

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Forest of the south

  

The forest of the south, as in Ezekiel 20:46, 47, signifies people in the light of truth and extinguish it.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1458)

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Ezekiel 20:46

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46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south;