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Daniel 2:35

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35 Tunc contrita sunt pariter ferrum, testa, æs, argentum, et aurum, et redacta quasi in favillam æstivæ areæ, quæ rapta sunt vento, nullusque locus inventus est eis : lapis autem, qui percusserat statuam, factus est mons magnus, et implevit universam terram.

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Apocalypsis 1:1

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1 Apocalypsis Jesu Christi, quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis, quæ oportet fieri cito : et significavit, mittens per angelum suum servo suo Joanni,

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In Deuteronomy 18:10, this signifies people who destroy the goods and truths of the church by knowledges applied wrongly, and who learn and teach by means of falsities from the evils of the love of self and the world. (Arcana Coelestia 9188[8])

In Joshua 13:22, this signifies that sorceries could not destroy the representative church signified by Israel. (Apocalypse Explained 140)

In Daniel 5:11, see Diviners.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 3698)