The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #154
154. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 31
1-2 Of the natural man who is in knowledges [scientifica]. (11, 4)
3-9 In the Ancient Church a rational flourished that was derived from knowledges [scientifica] of every kind, through their confirming, by means of these, the Divine things of the church; and from this source they had spiritual intelligence. (11, 7)
10-13 The pride of self-intelligence, from which comes a trust in learning, has wholly cast them down from intelligence, and has deprived them of all the truths of the church. (3, 3)
14 They are cast into hell, that they may no longer destroy. (3, 15)
15-18 There they are shut up, lest, while continuing in their falsifications, they should spread their falsities abroad. (3, 15, 15)
Ezekiel 32:3-8
3
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
4
I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
5
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
6
I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
7
When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
8
All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
