127. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 4

Representation of the perverted church in the church. (2)

1-2 He should represent the falsities of the church, and the church besieged by them. (2)

3 He should represent the hardness of their heart, from which it is that they have no fear; (2)

4-8 he should also represent the church besieged by falsities of evil and evils of falsity. (2)

9-16 He should represent the falsification and adulteration of the sense of the letter of the Word, (2)

17 by which everything of the church has perished. (2, 3)

165. What it is to carry iniquities: - 1. It is to sustain all the hells, by temptations; 2. So that in Him might be represented the state of the Church, as in the case of the prophet ¹ who was to take a harlot to wife, [the prophet] ² who was to go naked and barefoot, [the prophet] ³ who was to eat a cake made from dung, and was to lie on the right side and the left, and carry iniquities. So it was with the Lord in the particulars of His passion.

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