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For out of the north there cometh a nation against her, which shall make her landdesolate, and none shall dwell in it, they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
175. "'I know your works.'" (3:8) This symbolically means that the Lord sees people's inner and outer qualities all simultaneously, as in no. 76 above.
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.
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Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israeldraw near and come, that we may know it!"