![]() The virgin Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise. In this passage the holy things of Jehovah are treated of by measures, whereby are signified the kinds of the holy things by ten are here signified the remains of celestial and of the derivative spiritual things for unless such holy arcana were contained herein, what could be the use or intent of describing so many measures determined by numbers, as is done in this and the former chapters in the same Prophet, where the subject is the heavenly Jerusalem and the New Temple? Ye shall have balances of justice, and an ephah of justice, and a bath of justice: the ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, the bath to contain the tenth of a homer, and an ephah the tenth of a homer the measure thereof shall be after the homer and the ordinance of oil, a bath of oil, the tenth of a bath out of a kor, ten baths to the homer, for ten baths are a homer ( Ezekiel 14:10, 11, 14) Where the midst of the land signifies the internal man a tenth part signifies the smallness of the remains. In the same:-Īnd many things are forsaken in the midst of the land, yet in it shall be a tenth part, and it shall return, and nevertheless it shall be consumed ( Isaiah 6:12, 13) Speaking of the vastation of things spiritual and celestial: ten acres of vineyard making a bath, signifies that the remains of things spiritual were so few and the seed of a homer yielding an ephah, signifies that there were so few remains of things celestial. Many houses shall be a desolation, great and fair, without an inhabitant for ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah ( Isa. That the number ten, and also tenths, signify remains, is evident from the following passages of the Word:.
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