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Hesekiel 39:23

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23 und die Heiden erfahren, wie das Haus Israel um seiner Missetat willen sei weggeführt. Weil sie sich an mir versündigt hatten, darum habe ich mein Angesicht vor ihnen verborgen und habe sie übergeben in die Hände ihrer Widersacher, daß sie allzumal durchs Schwert fallen mußten.

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Arcana Coelestia #7092

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7092. 'Send My people away' means that they should leave off molesting them. This is clear from the meaning of 'sending away' - when addressed to Pharaoh, who represents falsity that molests the Church's truths - as leaving off molestation; and from the representation of the children of Israel, to whom 'My people' refers here, as those belonging to the spiritual Church, dealt with in 6426, 6637.

  
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Ezekiel 9:3

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3 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.