The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 150
150. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 27
1-2 Further concerning the church in respect to knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, which is Tyre. (2)
3-9 The Ancient Church had knowledges of truth and good of every kind and species, and by means of them it had intelligence. (2)
10-11 Truths that protected that church. (2)
12-13 Acquisitions and communications of all the knowledges. (2)
14-20 Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom by means of them.
21-23 Divine worship from them. (2)
24-25 Truths and goods of every kind and thus everything of the church acquired by means of them. (2, 17)
26-29 Through natural knowledges [scientiae] they have perished. (2)
Ezekiel 28:1-5
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a GOD, I sit in the seat of GOD, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not GOD, though thou set thine heart as the heart of GOD:
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Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
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By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
