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)

'Being sent' means coming forth, (or going forth), in the internal sense, as in John 17:8. In similar manner, it is said of the holy of the spirit, that it was 'sent,' that is, it goes forth from the divine of the Lord, as in John 15:26, 16:5, 7.

So, too, the prophets were called 'the sent,' because the words which they spoke went forth from the holy of the spirit of the Lord.

'To be sent,' as in Genesis 37:13, signifies teaching.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2397; John 15:7)