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Ezekiel 38:20

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20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the ground, and all men that are upon the face of the earth, shall be moved at my presence: and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #150

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150. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 27

1-2 Further concerning the church in respect to knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, which is Tyre. (2)

3-9 The Ancient Church had knowledges of truth and good of every kind and species, and by means of them it had intelligence. (2)

10-11 Truths that protected that church. (2)

12-13 Acquisitions and communications of all the knowledges. (2)

14-20 Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom by means of them.

21-23 Divine worship from them. (2)

24-25 Truths and goods of every kind and thus everything of the church acquired by means of them. (2, 17)

26-29 Through natural knowledges [scientiae] they have perished. (2)

30-34 Lamentation over their destruction, (2)

35-36 and that it is the countenance of hell. (2)

  
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