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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah 1:8
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #1
The Prophetical Books:
1. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 1 (1)
1-8 The church has been vastated by evil of life, (3)
9 so that there is little of a residue. (3)
10-15 Therefore their external worship is of no avail. (3)
16-19 Exhortation that they should repent of the evil of life, and thus they will receive good. (3)
20-23They falsify the Word. (3)
24-27 The Lord when He comes will destroy them, and will establish the church with others; (1, 11)
28-31 This when nothing of the church remains with them. (3)
Learn
'To learn,' as in Revelation 14:3, signifies an interior perception in one's self that 'it is so,' which denotes understanding. Anyone who learns anything otherwise, learns and does not learn because he does not retain what he learns.
(References: Apocalypse Revealed 618)
