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그들이 사람을 택하여 그 땅에 늘 순행하며 장사할 사람으로 더불어 지면에 남아 있는 시체를 장사하여 그 땅을 정결케 할 것이라 일곱달 후에 그들이 살펴 보되
에스겔 39:14
Arcana Coelestia # 778
778. As then 'birds of the air' 1 means intellectual truths and so thoughts, they also mean things that are the contrary, such as delusions or falsities, which because they are part of man's thought are called birds as well. 'The wicked being given as food to birds of the air 1 and to wild animals', for example, stands for delusions and evil desires, Isaiah 18:6; Jeremiah 7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; 39:4. Also the Lord Himself compares delusions and persuasions of falsity to birds when He says,
The seed which fell on the pathway was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air 1 devoured it. Matthew 13:4; Luke 8:5; Mark 4:4, 15.
Here 'birds of the air' 1 are nothing other than falsities.
Фусноте:
1. literally, birds of the heavens (or the skies)
Arcana Coelestia # 8133
8133. 'They are enmeshed in the land' means that they are in a state of confusion so far as things of the Church are concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'being enmeshed' as being entangled in, thus as being in a state of confusion, dealt with in 2831; and from the meaning of 'the land' as things of the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 8011.
