In the passage before us, the house of Pharaoh denotes memory-knowledges by means of which comes intelligence, and thereby wisdom. Thus throughout the Word, houses denote human minds, in which there should be intelligence and wisdom. Where houses denote in like manner falsities and the derivative evils horses, reasoning judgment, truths, which are turned into gall and the fruit of righteousness, goods which are turned into wormwood. Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood ( Amos 6:11, 12) In Amos:-īehold, Jehovah commandeth, and will smite the great horse with breaches, and the little house with clefts. Shall not many houses be for a desolation, great and good, without an inhabitant? The vineyard of Jehovah is the house of Israel ( Isaiah 5:8, 9, 7) Īlso denoting memory-knowledges by means of which come falsities. Woe unto them that join house to house, that cause field to draw near to field, till there be no place, and ye dwell alone in the midst of the land. Houses denote memory-knowledges by which, through reasoning, come falsities.
Because of My house, which is deserted, while ye run every one to his own house therefore upon you are the heavens shut from dew ( Haggai 1:8-10) Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little and ye brought it into the house, and I did blow it away. Go up into the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house. I will visit upon them that say in their heart, Jehovah hath not done good, and hath not done evil and their wealth shall be for a spoil, and their houses a desolation and they shall build houses and shall not in habit them, and they shall plant vineyards but shall not drink the wine thereof ( Zephaniah 1:12, 13). House is used in the opposite sense in Zephaniah:. Where wealth and riches denote the wealth and riches of wisdom and intelligence, thus knowledges which are in his house, that is, are in him. In David:-īlessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that delighteth greatly in His commandments wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endureth forever ( Ps. In Jeremiah:-īuild ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them ( Jeremiah 29:5) Here houses mean where there are wisdom and intelligence, thus where there are the knowledges of good and truth for the Lord's kingdom is here treated of, namely, the new heavens and the new earth. I create new heavens and a new earth they shall build houses, and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them they shall not build and another inhabit ( Isaiah 65:17, 21, 22) To collect memory-knowledges, and by their means frame the external man, and build it up, is not unlike building a house and therefore such things are signified in many passages of the Word by building, and by building houses, as in Isaiah:. As house signifies the church, the mind of the man of the church (wherein are the things of the will and of the understanding, or of charity and faith), is also signified by house. And the house of Jehovah is frequently mentioned as signifying the church wherein love is the principal the house of Judah, as signifying the celestial church and the house of Israel, as signifying the spiritual church. Here building houses and dwelling in them relates to the will planting gardens, to the understanding: and it is the same in other passages.
Again:-īuild ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them ( Jeremiah 29:5, 28). Here houses and also fields and wives relate to things which are of the will. Their houses shall be turned over unto others, their fields and their wives together ( Jeremiah 6:12). That a house signifies the will and what is of the will, is evident in various places in the Word as in Jeremiah:.