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Ezekiel 42:4

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4 and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.

Commentary

 

South and southward

  

'The land of the south,' as in Genesis 24:62, signifies divine light, for 'the south' signifies light, and the light of intelligence, which is wisdom.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 3195, Genesis 24)