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)

In Ezekiel 4:3, this signifies such truth as was falsified and adulterated by the Jewish nation. (Apocalypse Explained 706)

In Leviticus 2:4-7, the meat offering cooked in a pan or griddle, or in the oven, signifies diversities in the good of love. (Arcana Coelestia 7356)