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Daniel 4:7

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7 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me its interpretation.

Commentary

 

Soothsayers

  

In Deuteronomy 18:10, this signifies people who destroy the goods and truths of the church by knowledges applied wrongly, and who learn and teach by means of falsities from the evils of the love of self and the world. (Arcana Coelestia 9188[8])

In Joshua 13:22, this signifies that sorceries could not destroy the representative church signified by Israel. (Apocalypse Explained 140)

In Daniel 5:11, see Diviners.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 3698)