ephraim
Ephraim was the second son born to Joseph in Egypt and was, along with his older brother Manasseh, elevated by Jacob to the same status...
israel
'Israel,' in Jeremiah 23:8, signifies the spiritual natural church. The children of Israel dispersed all the literal sense of the Word by falsities. 'The children...
Baal
Baalim and her lovers (Hosea 2:13) signify those things which belong to the natural man, and are loved; such as the lusts and falsities thence...
silber
'Money' relates to truth.
bilder
'An image' signifies falsities from self-derived intelligence.
Kälber
Calves of the lips (Hos 14:2) are confessions from the affection of truth.
küssen
To kiss' signifies uniting or conjunction from affection. To kiss,' as in c, signifies initiation. 'To kiss' signifies conjunction and acknowledgment.
tau
Dew, in Deut. 32:2 signifies the multiplication of truth from good, and the fructification of good by truth.
frühe
Since the sun represents the Lord, the early morning and sunrise represent a state of enlightenment, with a new and clear understanding coming after a...
spreu
Chaff is mentioned in Matthew 3:12 signifies falsity of every kind, derived from an infernal origin.
tenne
The floor, as in Matthew 3:12, signifies the world of spirits which is between heaven and hell, and where the separation of evils and falsities...
rauch
'Smoke' signifies divine truth in extremes, because 'fire' which gives off smoke, signifies love. 'Smoke' also signifies the same thing as 'cloud' in many places....
herr
The Lord, in the simplest terms, is love itself expressed as wisdom itself. In philosophic terms, love is the Lord's substance and wisdom is His...
gott
Der Herr ist die Liebe selbst, ausgedrückt in der Form der Weisheit selbst. Die Liebe ist also sein Wesen, sein Innerstes. Die Weisheit - das...
Ägyptenland
In the Bible, Egypt means knowledge and the love of knowledge. In a good sense that means knowledge of truth from the Lord through the...
wüste
'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because...
Herz
The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor while a hard or stony heart means the love...
vergessen
To forget, in the internal sense, signifies nothing else but removal and apparent privation.
parder
'A leopard,' being a crafty and insidious animal, particularly represents people who confirm faith separate from good works. 'A leopard' signifies the affection or lust...
Wege
'To set a way,' as in Genesis 30:36, signifies being separated.
Bär
Bären repräsentieren die Kraft der wörtlichen äußeren Geschichten und Ideen der Bibel, getrennt von ihren tieferen Bedeutungen. Da es sich um wilde Fleischfresser handelt, wird...
König
The human mind is composed of two parts, a will and an understanding, a seat of loves and affections, and a seat of wisdom and...
Richter
It’s easy to see the connection between judging and truth. In a court of law, the judge’s whole purpose is to find the truth. In...
Könige
The human mind is composed of two parts, a will and an understanding, a seat of loves and affections, and a seat of wisdom and...
Zorn
Wut ist eine Emotion, die so häufig bei Menschen vorkommt, dass sie keiner Definition bedarf. Es können jedoch einige interessante Punkte angesprochen werden. 1) Der...
missetat
In the Word three terms are used to mean bad things that are done. These three are transgression, iniquity, and sin, and they are here...
ephraims
Ephraim was the second son born to Joseph in Egypt and was, along with his older brother Manasseh, elevated by Jacob to the same status...
Sünde
In the Word three terms are used to mean bad things that are done. These three are transgression, iniquity, and sin, and they are here...
Kinder
A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent....
zeit
Time is an aspect of the physical world, but according to Swedenborg is not an aspect of the spiritual world. The same is true of...
Kommen
Coming (Gen. 41:14) denotes communication by influx.
bleiben
'To stay with,' as in Genesis 32:4, relates to the life of truth when accompanied by good, and in this instance, it means to take...
Hölle
'Hell,' as mentioned in Jonah 2:3, signifies the earth below.
pestilenz
'Pestilence' denotes the vastation of good and truth.
Augen
It’s common to say “I see” when we understand something. And indeed, “seeing” in the Bible represents grasping and understanding spiritual things. So it makes...
bringen
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “bring” is highly dependent on context, but in general it represents an introduction to a new...
Quelle
A fountain signifies the Lord and the Word. A fountain signifies superior truth, and well, inferior truth. A fountain, as in Psalm 104:10, denotes knowledges....
Schatz
'Treasuries' denote knowledges of good and truth, and, in the opposite sense, evil and falsity.
samaria
'Samaria,' as in Amos 4:1. 6:1, signifies the spiritual church perverted.
schwert
A 'sword,' in the Word, signifies the truth of faith combating and the vastation of truth. In an opposite sense, it signifies falsity combating and...
fallen
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "fall" is highly dependent on context in regular language, and is highly dependent on context in a spiritual...
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