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Ezekiel 20:41

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41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Commentary

 

Strength of a house

  

In Psalm 147:10, 'the strength of a house' signifies the human power of thinking truth.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2826 [1-14])

Commentary

 

Forest of the south

  

The forest of the south, as in Ezekiel 20:46, 47, signifies people in the light of truth and extinguish it.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1458)