The Bible

 

Jeremiah 48:18

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18 Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.

Commentary

 

Put

  

'To put' has reference to order, arrangement, application, and influx.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 6725)

Commentary

 

Broad place

  
Rhodes town square, photo by [http://flickr.com/photos/99475348@N00 Clarence]

Height relates to the desire for good and breadth relates to the knowledge of truth. Following that, something that is “broad” has a great capacity for truth, and a “broad place” or “broad land” is one where a large amount of truth can be learned and understood. This meaning also applies to town squares, which are mentioned several times in the Bible (the angels who visited Lot in Genesis 19 were initially going to stay in Sodom’s town square, for instance). “Square” or “town square” is modernized language; the literal translation is a “broad place” in the town.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1613 [1-2], 4482 [1-3], 6856; The Apocalypse Explained 652 [3])