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And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
6918. 'And clothes' means inferior factual knowledge corresponding to these. This is clear from the meaning of 'clothes' as inferior factual knowledge, dealt with in 2576, 5248. 'Clothes' has this meaning because they envelop more internal things.
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