Excerpt from Arcana Coelestia, Vol. 4 of 12: The Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Holy Scripture, or Word of the Lord Unfolded in an Exposition of Genesis and Exodus Sihon shall be strengthened, because a fire hath gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon, it hath devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. Woe to thee, Moab, thou art undone, Opcople of Chemosh he hath given his sons that escaped and his daughters into captivity unto Sihon hing of the Amorite and we have shot at them, Heshbon hath perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nopha, which is even to Medebah, Numb. Xxi. 27 - 30. That these prophetical say ings involve heavenly arcana, like the prophetical parts of the Old Testament, is very manifest, not only from the consideration that they were written by Moses, and applied to the state of things then treated of, but also from this circumstance, that nearly the same words occur in Jeremiah, in which it must be very plain, from what has been said concerning the internal sense of the Word, there are contained as many heavenly mysteries as there are words; the passage is this, A fire hath gone forth from Heshbon, and a flame from between Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of Moab, and the top of the heads of the sons of noise. Woe to thee, Moab the people of Chemosh perisheth, because thy sons are taken into captivity, and thy daughters into captivity, J er. Xlviii. 45, 46 hence also it is evident that that Word had also an in ternal sense. Concerning the Ancient Church which was after the flood, see 11. 640, 641, 765, 1238, 1327, 2385. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.