332 - Nowhere to Lay His Head
By Jonathan S. Rose
Title: Nowhere to Lay His Head
Topic: The Word
Summary: How can we provide the Lord a place to lay his head?
References:
Judges 15:3-5
Nehemiah 4:1-3
Lamentations 5:15-18
Ezekiel 13:3-5
Luke 13:31-33
Isaiah 2:19; 42:21-22
Jeremiah 16:16-17
Ezekiel 8:6-10
Micah 7:16-17
2 Samuel 21:9-10
1 Kings 14:11
Job 12:7-8
Hosea 7:11-12
Luke 8:5
Acts 10:9-14
Proverbs 27:8
Isaiah 34:8-11, 13-16
Jeremiah 49:15-16
Mark 10:33-34
Matthew 25:31-33
Luke 19:9-10
Isaiah 35:10
Ezekiel 9:10; 16:43
Job 16:15-16
Matthew 8:18-20
This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 2/21/2018. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
Teeth
In Genesis 49:12, "teeth whiter than milk" signify the Celestial Spiritual [milk] in the Lord's Natural [teeth], where Judah is here representing the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 2184-2185).
In Psalms 3:7; 37:12, 58:6; Matthew 8:12, teeth signify the lowest natural things in man: in the genuine sense, their truths, in the opposite sense, their falsities. So the gnashing of teeth signifies the collision of falsities with truths. (Arcana Coelestia 4424[3])
In Exodus 21:27, this signifies truth in the natural, here the ultimate, which is the sensuous. (Arcana Coelestia 9062)
The tooth signifies the corporeal proprium, which is the lowest degree of man. (Arcana Coelestia 10283[12])
'Teeth,' as in Genesis 49:12, in the genuine sense, signify the natural level of life. Any hard part of the body, like bones and cartilage, corresponds to the truths and goods of the lowest natural level. 'Teeth' signify the outer edges of the life of the natural self, or the sensory level. There is a natural sensory will, and a natural sensory understanding. When the sensory levels are separated from the interior of the mind, their supposed truths are really mere falsities, and do violence to truths and destroy them. This situation appears in many passages, because sensory people do not see any truth in its own light, but engage in reasoning and altercations about everything... These altercations are heard in the hells as the gnashing of teeth. Viewed in itself, this is the collision of falsity and truth. This is the meaning of 'gnashing of teeth' in Matthew 8:12, 13:42, 50, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30, and Luke 13:28.
(References: Apocalypse Revealed 435)
