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Hesekiel 17:10

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10 Siehe, er ist zwar gepflanzt; aber sollte er geraten? Ja, sobald der Ostwind an ihn rühren wird, wird er verdorren auf dem Platz, da er gewachsen ist.

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Root

  

'The dried up root,' as in Hosea 9:16, 17, signifies charity which could not bear fruit.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1801; Malachi 4:1)


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Malachi 4:1

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1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.