The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 127
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)
Arcana Coelestia # 2710
2710. Described in this verse is the state of the spiritual Church - that it is an obscure state compared with the state of the celestial Church, and that it is a militant state, for the reason that the member of the spiritual Church does not know truth except from doctrine, and not from good itself, as the member of the celestial Church does.