Waters
'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.
'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.
'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.
'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.
'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.
'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.
'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.
'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.
(Посилання: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)
属天的奥秘 #1067
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“挪亚开始作起土地上的人来” 一般表被教导关于信的教义事物之人. “栽了一个葡萄园” 表由此而来的教会, “葡萄园” 是属灵教会.