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Ezekiel 20:31

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31 Khi các ngươi dâng lễ vật, khi các ngươi còn tự làm ô uế với những thần tượng mình cho đến ngày nay sao? Hỡi nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên, ta há để cho các ngươi cầu hỏi sao? Chúa Giê-hô-va phán: Thật như ta hằng sống, ta không để cho các ngươi cầu hỏi!

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Arcana Coelestia #1260

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1260. Since 'nations' in the Most Ancient Church and in the Ancient Church meant goods or good persons, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean evils or evil persons Similarly with 'peoples'; since these meant truths, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean falsities. For in a corrupted Church good is turned into evil, and truth into falsity, as a consequence of which the meaning of nations and peoples in that contrary sense occurs many times in the Word, as in Isaiah 13:4; 14:6; 18:2, 7; 30:28; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 20:13; and in many other places.

  
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