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Hesekiel 11:23

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23 Ja Issanda auhiilgus tõusis üles linna keskelt ning jäi seisma mäele, mis on ida pool linna.

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Pot

  

Pots" and other large vessels in the Bible represent facts and factual ideas, which serve as containers for truth the same way pots serve as containers for water or wine. Pots fill their function because they are hard, strong and impervious; facts are also absolute and unchanging, filling their function the same way. And pots must be filled to serve any use, just as facts must be filled with truth to serve any purpose. To some extent this meaning also applies to cups, bowls and other smaller vessels, though it is a little more immediate. Generally you don't fill a cup so you can store a liquid; you fill it to drink it. Smaller vessels then often take more of their meaning from the substance they contain, and in many cases ("cup" and "wine" especially) actually mean the same thing.

Das Obras de Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia # 6364

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6364. 'Your brothers will praise you' means that this Church is superior to all the rest. This is clear from the meaning of 'being praised' as being superior; from the representation of Judah, to whom 'you' refers here, as the celestial Church, dealt with immediately above in 6363; and from the meaning of 'brothers' as the truths which that Church possesses, thus also the Churches which are governed by those truths and are represented by 'Judah's brothers'; for truths and forms of good are what constitute a Church. The truths which the celestial Church possesses are meant by 'your brothers', that is, Judah's brothers, whereas the truths that the spiritual Church possesses are meant by 'his father's sons' below in 6366.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.