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Hosea 7:1

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1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

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Arms

  

In Numbers 31:5, Numbers 32:17, this signifies prepared to accept knowledges of truth. (Apocalypse Explained 430[11])

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2162; Daniel 10:6)

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Daniel 10:6

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6 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.