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Ezekiel 22:11

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11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

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Vanity

  

'Vanity' signifies evil and the falsity of evil. 'Vanities of strangers' signify falsities of religion.

In Exodus 5:9, vain words signify truths when said by people who believe falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 7122)

(References: Apocalypse Explained 340)


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Genesis 28:14

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14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.