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até que lhes falte o pão e a água, e se espantem uns com os outros, e se definhem na sua iniqüidade.
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até que lhes falte o pão e a água, e se espantem uns com os outros, e se definhem na sua iniqüidade.
128. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 5
It is represented how they have destroyed the sense of the letter. (2)
1-2 In part they have adulterated the sense of the letter, in part have falsified it, and in part forsaken it; nevertheless, they will continue to falsify it. (2)
3 They will profane all the truths of the church. (2)
5-7 Because they have perverted the truths of the church more than others, (3)
8-10 falsities have destroyed goods, and evils truths until nothing of good and truth is left; (3)
11-12 and because they have destroyed the church by profaning it, they will perish, as above. (3)
13 Afterward the church will be instituted among others, (11)
14-17 since all things of the Word, of doctrine and of the church have previously been consummated by profanities, and by evils and falsities. (3)
Because 'six' means completeness, the words 'to divide into six' or 'give a sixth part,' came into use. In a spiritual sense, this means completeness. The prophets were to drink water by 'the sixth part of a hin,' as in Ezekiel 4:11, and to 'take for an offering the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat,' as in Ezekiel 45:13.
(Referenser: Apocalypse Revealed 610)