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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...
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'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means what is complete, as does 'ten.' Forty is the product of four and ten. Compound numbers have a meaning...
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Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
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'To thresh,' as in Micah 4:13, signifies dissipating evils among people of the church.
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'To thresh,' as in Micah 4:13, signifies dissipating evils among people of the church.
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A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, line workers building them, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They...
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Dead (Gen. 23:8) signifies night, in respect to the goodnesses and truths of faith.
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The Hebrew of the Old Testament has six different common words which are generally translated as "wife," which largely overlap but have different nuances. Swedenborg...
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In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and...
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'Women,' as in Genesis 45:19, signify the affections of truth. But in Genesis 31:50, 'women' signify affections of not genuine truth, so not of the...
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As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
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When the Bible talks about generations or birth order, the internal meaning has to do with the progression of spiritual states and their relative importance....
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To beget or to be begotten is very similar in meaning to birth: It represents one spiritual state leading to the next spiritual state. "Beget,"...
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It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and...
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'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...
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The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
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"Gates" in ancient times had a significance that does not hold in the modern world. Cities then were enclosed by walls for protection; gates in...
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As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
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As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
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Cities of the mountain and cities of the plain (Jer. 33:13) signify doctrines of charity and faith.
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As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
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'To stand,' and 'come forth' as in Daniel 7:10, refers to truth. In Genesis 24:13, it signifies a state of conjunction of divine truth with...
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'Nigh' denotes truth in affinity with good.
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In the Word, 'the sole of the foot' and 'the heel' signifies the ultimate natural. 'The shoe' is what clothes the sole of the foot...
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Our feet are the lowest and most utilitarian parts of our bodies, and in the Bible they represent the lowest and most utilitarian part of...
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wrought (also entwined or entwisted) is predicated of the natural scientific principle, and in Isaiah 45:13, of divine natural truth.
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The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
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There are really two meanings for "build" in the Bible. When something is being built for the first time, or built in the most typical...
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Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
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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...
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He is said to be 'just' in a spiritual sense, who lives according to divine laws. They on the right hand being called 'just,' as...
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The expression 'even to this day' or 'today' sometimes appears in the Word, as in Genesis 19:37-38, 22:14, 26:33, 32:32, 35:20, and 47:26. In a...
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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...
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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...
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The Lord is called "Jehovah" in the Bible when the text is referring to his essence, which is love itself. He is called "God" when...
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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...
ประทาน
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "give" in the Bible is affected by context: who is giving what to whom? In general, though, giving...
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He is said to be 'just' in a spiritual sense, who lives according to divine laws. They on the right hand being called 'just,' as...
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'To remember,' as in Genesis 41:9, signifies conjunction. 'Remembering' denotes conjunction because the remembrance of anyone in the other life joins them together, because as...
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Amalek, or the Amalekites, signifies those who are in false principles.
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'To set a way,' as in Genesis 30:36, signifies being separated.
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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...
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To strike or smite, when used in the Bible, means to attack, harm or destroy, and is usually in reference to an attack on someone’s...
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Like other common verbs, the meaning of "give" in the Bible is affected by context: who is giving what to whom? In general, though, giving...
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An enemy in the Bible refers to people who are in the love of evil and the false thinking that springs from evil. On a...
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In Biblical times, possessions passed from fathers to sons, a patriarchal system that would not be accepted in today's society – but one that is...
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Generally speaking things that are seen as lower physically in the Bible represent things that are lower or more external spiritually. In some cases this...
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To forget, in the internal sense, signifies nothing else but removal and apparent privation.
