The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #152
152. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 29
1-3 Of the natural man who, in things Divine, trusts nothing but His knowledges [scientifica]. (2)
4-5 Such will pervert the truths of the church by applying their knowledges to falsities. (2, 1)
6-7 Because truths have been perverted in this manner, all power, which is of truth, has been destroyed in their case, (3, 16)
8-12 and all truth will be utterly devastated, until they will no longer have truth. (3)
13-16 Nevertheless something of a church will be established out of those who are natural and in knowledges [scientifica]. (11)
17-18 Reasonings from knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man will not destroy knowledges [cognitiones] of truth with them; (11)
19-20 but these will be destroyed by reasonings from the natural man with those who trust knowledges [scientifica] alone, and have perverted the truths of the church. (2)
21 Those who are of the church that the Lord will establish will have truths of doctrine. (11, 11)
Ezekiel 29:13-16
13
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
14
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
15
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
16
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
