I will pour out My spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Joel 2:28.

'Flesh' stands for mankind, 'spirit' for the influx of truth and good from the Lord. In David, O You that hearest prayer, to You will all flesh come. Ps 65:2.

Here 'flesh' stands for the whole of mankind. In Jeremiah,

Cursed is that man (vir) who trusts in man (homo) and makes flesh his arm. Jer 17:5.

'Flesh' stands for mankind, 'arm' for power. In Ezekiel,

And all flesh will know. Ezek 10:48, 49.

[2] In Zechariah, Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah. Zech 2:13. Again 'flesh' stands for the whole of mankind. 'Flesh' stands for the bodily-minded man in particular in Isaiah,

The Egyptian is man (homo), and not God; and his horses are flesh and not spirit. Isa 31:3.

'Flesh' here indicates that their factual knowledge is concerned with things of the body. 'Horses' here and elsewhere in the Word stands for the rational. In the same prophet,

One will strike down on the right and will be hungry; and they will eat on the left, and they will not be satisfied. Every man will eat the flesh of his own arm. Isa 9:20.

Here 'flesh' stands for the things that are man's own, all of which are of a bodily nature. In the same prophet,

He will fat up from the soul even to the flesh. Isa 10:18.

'Flesh' stands for bodily things. In the same prophet,

The glory of Jehovah will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together. A voice says, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass. Isa 40:5, 6.

'Flesh' stands for the whole of mankind as being bodily-minded.

[3] In the same prophet,

In fire Jehovah will dispute, and by His sword with all flesh, and the slain^a of Jehovah will be multiplied. Isa 66:16.

God remembered that they were flesh, a spirit going away so that it did not turn back. Ps 78:39.

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