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Ezequiel 2

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1 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, está sobre tus pies, y hablaré contigo.

2 Y entró espíritu en mí luego que me habló, y me afirmó sobre mis pies, y oí al que me hablaba.

3 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, yo te envío a los hijos de Israel, a gentiles rebeldes que se rebelaron contra mí; ellos y sus padres se rebelaron contra mí, hasta este mismo día.

4 Y a hijos que son duros de rostro y fuertes de corazón, yo te envío, y les dirás: Así dijo el Señor DIOS.

5 Y ellos no oirán, ni cesarán, porque son casa rebelde; mas conocerán que hubo profeta entre ellos.

6 Y tú, hijo de hombre, no temas de ellos, ni tengas miedo de sus palabras, porque son rebeldes; aunque te hallas entre espinas, y tú moras con abrojos, no tengas miedo de sus palabras, ni temas delante de ellos, porque son casa rebelde.

7 Les hablarás mis palabras, mas no oirán ni cesarán; porque son rebeldes.

8 Mas tú, hijo de hombre, oye lo que yo te hablo: No seas rebelde como la casa rebelde; abre tu boca, y come lo que yo te doy.

9 Y miré, y he aquí una mano me fue enviada, y en ella había un rollo de libro.

10 Y lo extendió delante de mí, y estaba escrito delante y detrás; y había escritas en él endechas, y lamentaciones, y ayes.

   

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Tongue

  

In Genesis 10:5, Deuteronomy 28:49, this signifies a way of thinking. (Arcana Coelestia 1159)

In Psalms 35:28, 51:14, this corresponds in general to the affection for truth, or to people in the Grand Man in this affection, and are afterwards in affection for good from truth. (Arcana Coelestia 4791)

In Exodus 11:7, this signifies no condemnation or lamentation. (Arcana Coelestia 7784)

In Revelation 5:9, this signifies that those people have been redeemed who, in any religion, are in doctrinal truths. (Apocalypse Revealed 282)

(References: Luke 16, 16:24, Luke 24; Revelation 10, 16, Revelation 16:10)


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Arcana Coelestia #4791

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4791. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRAND MAN - continued

IN THIS SECTION THE CORRESPONDENCE OF TASTE AND OF THE TONGUE, AND ALSO OF THE FACE, WITH THAT GRAND MAN

The tongue provides an entrance leading into both the lungs and the stomach, and so represents a kind of forecourt leading to spiritual things and to celestial ones, to spiritual because it serves the lungs and thereby speech, to celestial because it serves the stomach which supplies nourishment to the blood and the heart. For the lungs correspond to spiritual realities, the heart to celestial ones, see 3635, 3883-3896. All this being so, the tongue corresponds in general to the affection for truth, that is, to those in the Grand Man whose affection is for truth, and after that whose affection is for good which is a product of that truth. People therefore who love the Word of the Lord and wish to gain from it a knowledge of what is good and true belong to that province. Yet they differ from one another, in that some belong to the actual tongue, some to the larynx and trachea, some to the throat, some also to the gums, while others belong to the lips. For not even the smallest part of the human being fails to have a correspondence.

[2] I have been allowed on many occasions to learn by experience that those governed by an affection for truth belong to that province understood in the broad sense. On one occasion they plainly entered my tongue, on another my lips; and I have been allowed to talk to them. I have also noticed that some correspond to the more internal parts of the tongue and lips, others to their more external parts. There are some who have an affection for and receive only exterior truths, not interior ones, though they do not reject them. The operation of these I have felt in the exterior but not the interior parts of my tongue.

  
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