![]() That oil denotes good, may be seen above (AC 886) lamps denote love.īack to Words index, Back to Artifact words index Author: E. That the wise took oil in their vessels, denotes that there was good in truths, and thus charity in faith. In 2 Timothy 2:21, Paul says, So if someone cleanses himself of such. However, not all vessels and servants have the same usefulness. In this household, there are many vessels both for special purposes and common ones there are also servants (v. In ancient times, there was a wide array of skeuos, and each had a. In 2 Timothy 2:20-26, Paul uses the illustration of a master with a great household. ![]() It refers to a vessel, container, or utensil. 25:4), by the virgins are signified affections. The word vessels is the Greek word skeuos. In the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom took oil in their vessels with their lamps, while the foolish did not ( Matt. ![]() This is Balaam's parable concerning Jacob and Israel waters flowing from his buckets, signify that truths flow from knowledges. In Moses:-Īs the valleys are they planted, as gardens by the river's side waters shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be at many waters ( Num. That it is Babel that lays waste, may be seen above (AC 1327). Where an empty vessel has a similar meaning. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel hath devoured me, he hath troubled me, he hath made me an empty vessel ( Jer. 14:2, 3) Įmpty vessels denote knowledges wherein there is no truth, and also truths wherein there is no good. The cry of Jerusalem is gone up, and their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters they came to the pits, they found no waters, they returned with their vessels empty, they are ashamed ( Jer. The offering in a clean vessel is representative of the external man relatively to the internal that which brings the gift is the internal man the clean vessel is the external man that is in agreement, thus it denotes the things in the external man, which are memory-knowledges, knowledges, and doctrinal things. ![]() That vessels signify the externals of spiritual things, is also plain from other passages in the Word, as in Isaiah:-Īs the sons of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah ( Isa. The vessels of gold and of silver denote the knowledges of good and truth, which were profaned for the Chaldeans denote those who are in knowledges, but such as have been profaned by the falsities that are in them (AC 1368) so that the knowledges serve them to worship gods of gold and silver for Belshazzar is called king of the chaldeans in this same chapter ( Daniel 5:30). ![]()
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