Look
'Look not back behind thee,' as in Genesis 19:17, means that Lot, who represents the good of charity, should not look to matters of doctrine. 'To look up,' is to look to celestial things. In Genesis 18:22, looking signifies thinking because seeing denotes understanding.
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Exodus 37:17-22
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He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
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There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:
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three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
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In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
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and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
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Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
