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Rh where, by the resurrection to life, is meant the conjunction of love and wisdom, or of charity and faith; since nothing can properly be called life but such conjunction; and, by resurrection to judgment, is meant the separation of wisdom from love, or of faith from charity, for all judgment and condemnation cometh from such separation.

120. Hiram, king of Tyre, was dissatisfied with the cities which Solomon gave him, and he called them the land of Cabul, which means displeasing or dirty; (see 1 Kings ix. 11, 12, 13;) because Hiram is a figure of the scientific man, who at all times, and in all places, makes light of the doctrinals of good and truth, represented by Solomon’s cities, and accounts them as vile in comparison with his own sciences.

121. I will wash my hands in innocency, so will I compass Thine altar,. (Psalm xxvi. 6.) To wash the hands in innocency, signifies to be purified by faith in the Lord’s Divine Humanity, or by truth derived from it, and in connection with it. And so will I compass Zhine altar,, denotes conjunction thus effected with the Divine Humanity; to compass signifying to be in the circuit or circumference, and to compass the altar of the Lord, therefore, denoting to be in the circuit or circumference, of which the altar of the Lord, or the Divine Humanity, is the centre.

122. It is written in Luke, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say unto him, Lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his