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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #127

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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)

  
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The Bible

 

Ezekiel 4:7

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7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

Commentary

 

Wine, oil, flour, and wheat

  

In Revelation 18:13, 'wine, oil, flour, and wheat' signify celestial principles of worship.

(References: Apocalypse Revealed 777)