Monday, November 15, 2010

AE 502 - the sound of the trumpet at Jericho

AE 502 [11]
It was commanded
that seven priests should bear seven jubilee horns before the ark,
and should go round the city six days, once each day,
and on the seventh day they should go round the city seven times,
and blow the horns;
and when the people in Jericho heard the voice of the horn
and the shoutings of the people,
the wall of the city fell down under itself,
and the people went up into the city and took it.

(Joshua 6:1-20)

These things represented the overcoming of the evil in the spiritual world,
which is effected by Divine truth out of heaven,
which is heard there when it flows down as a horn sounding,
as was said above.
All the miracles related in the Word were representative
and consequently significative of things Divine in the heavens;
therefore the effect of the sound of horns against enemies on earth
was like the effect against the evil in the spiritual world;
for in the Word "enemies" represented and thence signified the evil . . ..

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