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Daniel 2:32

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32 La kapo de tiu statuo estis el pura oro; gxiaj brusto kaj manoj estis el argxento, la ventro kaj femuroj el kupro;

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Arcana Coelestia #2163

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2163. 'Recline under the tree' means towards the perception of the state through which He was passing. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tree' as perception, dealt with in 103. The whole train of thought shows that this is the real meaning here. 'Trees' means perceptions, and the reason for this was that the celestial man was compared and likened to the paradise or garden in Eden, and therefore the perceptions of celestial things with that man to the trees that were there.

  
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1 Kings 7:23

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23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.