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44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
22 If a man shall be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove evil from Israel.
'To open,' as in Revelation 9, signifies communication and conjunction.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 537)