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Ezekiel 6:5

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5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

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Apocalypse Explained #385

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385. With the sword. That this signifies by means of falsity, is plain from the signification of sword, as denoting truth fighting against falsity and destroying it; and, in an opposite sense, falsity fighting against truth and destroying it (concerning which see above, n. 131, 367).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Lamentations 5:8-10

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8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

      

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