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)

30-34 Lamentation over their destruction, (2)

35-36 and that it is the countenance of hell. (2)

In 2 Kings 1:2; Psalm 38:7; Exodus 15:26; Luke 6:17, this signifies temptations, and corresponds with the state of the man's spirit. (Arcana Coelestia 5711)

In Deuteronomy 7:15, this signifies the evils which assail people in faith separate from charity, and so in a life of evil. (Arcana Coelestia 8364)

In Matthew 4:24, disease or illness signifies various kinds of evils and falsities infesting the church and the human race, which if allowed to continue, would have induced spiritual death. (Arcana Coelestia 8364) 'Pestilence' denotes the vastation of good and truth.

(Referenser: Arcana Coelestia 7102)