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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I will pursueafter them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nationswhere I have driven them;
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