The Bible

 

Ezekiel 16:48

Study

       

48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

Commentary

 

Walk

  

Walking represents living, and usually means living according to the true things taught to us by the Lord -- to "walk in His ways." When the Lord is pictured walking, it means life itself.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #8799

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

8799. 'For he will surely be stoned' means that [as a result] the truths of faith which they possess will be destroyed. This is clear from the meaning of 'being stoned' as the punishment for falsity and for the violation of truth, dealt with in 5156, 7456, 8575. The reason why that is the punishment suffered by those who in arrogant self-confidence ascend to the Divine in a heaven above is that when they do this all the intelligence they possessed previously is destroyed; for they are seized then by blindness, see just above in 8797.

  
/ 10837  
  

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