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Ezekiel 7:15

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15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine.

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Poverty

  

'Poverty' signifies a defect of one's knowledges of truth and good.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 238)

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Isaiah 30:22

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22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.