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Ezequiel 5:1

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1 E tu, ó filho do homem, toma uma espada afiada; como navalha de barbeiro a usarás, e a farás passar pela tua cabeça e pela tua barba. Então tomarás uma balança e repartirás os cabelos.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #127

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127. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 4

Representation of the perverted church in the church. (2)

1-2 He should represent the falsities of the church, and the church besieged by them. (2)

3 He should represent the hardness of their heart, from which it is that they have no fear; (2)

4-8 he should also represent the church besieged by falsities of evil and evils of falsity. (2)

9-16 He should represent the falsification and adulteration of the sense of the letter of the Word, (2)

17 by which everything of the church has perished. (2, 3)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.

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265 - Vessels Broken and New

By Jonathan S. Rose

Redware pottery jar, painted white rings, broken and repaired. New Kingdom. 31.5 cm, UC18432 (Petrie Museum)

Title: Vessels Broken and New

Topic: Salvation

Summary: When we feel the "vessel" of our selves being shattered, as painful as that is, it gives us an opportunity to let the Potter make us into something new.

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References:
Isaiah 30:9, 14
Leviticus 6:24, 28; 11:29, 33
2 Kings 4
Job 10:1; 16:11-12
Psalms 2:7-9
Psalms 31:9, 11-12
Isaiah 8:9; 11:1, 4; 29:16; 45:9; 64:8
Jeremiah 18:1, 6; 19:1, 10; 32:14; 48:11-12, 38
Daniel 2:31, 41
Matthew 9:17; 13:47-48; 25:1-4
John 19:28-30
Acts of the Apostles 9:15
2 Corinthians 4:7
1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7
2 Timothy 2:21-22
Revelation 21:5; 2:25, 27
Psalms 22

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