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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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WHOREDOM

Symbolic of the soul seeking satisfaction from without instead of from within-whence cometh all good; or of the soul's attachment to the lower emotions in preference to the higher.

"By whoredoms are signified adulterations of good and falsifications of truth in the Word." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 134.

"Rebellion, and judgment, and imprisonment, and execution and war, are constantly used as the symbols of spiritual things: 80 are adultery, fornication, divorce, and I may say, every form of faithlessness. Natural life is altogether, by the Holy Spirit, made to be but one allegory of spiritual things: all the substantial attributes, or constant laws of life, are, to use a vulgar but very expressive similitude, the fount of types with which the book of inspiration is printed, in order to be made legible and intelligible to the whole human family." - ED. IRVING, Works, Vol. I. p. 71.

 

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ADULTERY
COURTEZAN
DEVILS
DIVORCING
FOLLY
HARLOT
MARRIAGE (lower)