2
說：你的母親是甚麼呢？是個母獅子，蹲伏在獅子中間，在少壯獅子中養育小獅子。
5
母獅見自己等候失了指望，就從他小獅子中又將一個養為少壯獅子。
7
他知道列國的宮殿，又使他們的城邑變為荒場；因他咆哮的聲音，遍地和其中所有的就都荒廢。
8
於是四圍邦國各省的人來攻擊他，將網撒在他身上，捉在他們的坑中。
9
他們用鉤子鉤住他，將他放在籠中，帶到巴比倫王那裡，將他放入堅固之所，使他的聲音在以色列山上不再聽見。
10
你的母親先前如葡萄樹，極其茂盛（原文是在你血中），栽於水旁。因為水多，就多結果子，滿生枝子；
11
生出堅固的枝幹，可作掌權者的杖。這枝幹高舉在茂密的枝中，而且他生長高大，枝子繁多，遠遠可見。
402. Then the second angel sounded. (8:8) This symbolizes an examination and disclosure of the state of the church and its character in people caught up externally in that faith.
To be shown that to sound a trumpet means, symbolically, to examine and disclose the state of the church and so of the life in people for whom religion is faith alone, see no. 397 above.
What is said here concerns people caught up externally in that faith because the subject now is people who are at sea, whereas previously it was people upon the earth; and those on the earth mean people concerned with the internal elements of the church, namely the clergy, while those at sea mean people concerned with the external elements of the church, namely the laity (see no. 398 above).
These people in the spiritual world are seemingly at sea (nos. 238, 290).
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