The Bible

士师记 8:27

²⁷ 基甸以此制造了一个以弗得，设立在本城俄弗拉。後来以色列人拜那以弗得行了邪淫；这就作了基甸和他全家的网罗。

Commentary

Youths

This print, from a medieval French manuscript, shows a relatively bald Elisha cursing the youths as the bears attack. Elijah rides a chariot overhead, having been taken up to heaven shortly before.

Youths" or "Young men" generally represent intelligence or the understanding of truth.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 386; Apocalypse Revealed 620 [3]; Arcana Coelestia 5037 [3], 7668, 7724, 9390; The Apocalypse Explained 863 [2-6])

The Bible

Matthew 24:17

¹⁷ Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.