Arcana Coelestia #9
9. The third state is one of repentance, a state in which he speaks piously and devoutly from the internal man and brings forth goods, like charitable acts which are nevertheless inanimate since he imagines that they originate in himself. They are called a tender plant, then a seed-bearing plant, and finally a fruit tree.
Ezekiel 19:7-9
7
He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
8
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
