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Hesekiel 37:5

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5 So spricht der HERR HERR von diesen Gebeinen: Siehe, ich will einen Odem in euch bringen, daß ihr sollt lebendig werden.

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Arcana Coelestia #9593

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9593. THE INTERNAL SENSE

Verse 1 And you shall make the dwelling-place, [formed by] ten curtains; from fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet, with cherubs, with the work of a designer you shall make them.

'And you shall make the dwelling-place' means the second or middle heaven. 'Ten curtains' means all the truths of which it consists. 'From fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet' means the spiritual and celestial realities from which those truths are derived. 'With cherubs' means the Lord's watchfulness, guarding it from the approach of the hells and the harm they can do. 'With the work of a designer you shall make them' means the power of understanding.

  
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Micah 5:2

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2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.