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Jeremiah 51:57

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57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

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Apocalypse Explained #621

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621. And it was in my mouth as honey, sweet, signifies that the Word, in respect to its external, or in respect to its sense of the letter, was still perceived as the delight of good, but as delight only for the reason that it served to confirm the principles of falsity, and the loves of evil, that is, the principles arising from the love of self and of the world, all of which are falsities. That the Word, which is meant by "the little book," was perceived on this account to be "sweet as honey," may be seen in what has been shown above.

  
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