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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 first altar mentioned in the Word was built by Noah after he came out of the ark. On that altar, he sacrificed clean animals...
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Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king...
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'A spoiler,' as in Jeremiah 48:32, signifies evil and its derivative falsity.
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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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Angels do give us guidance, but they are mere helpers; the Lord alone governs us, through angels and spirits. Since angels have their assisting role,...
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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...
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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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'Word,' as in Psalms 119:6-17, stands for doctrine in general. 'The Word,' as in Psalms 147:18, signifies divine good united with divine truth. 'Word,' as...
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'Samaria,' as in Amos 4:1. 6:1, signifies the spiritual church perverted.
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In a general sense, mourning in the Bible represents a state of grief over the lack of desires for good and true ideas about life....
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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...
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On a natural level, there are a variety of things that can cause shame. We might be ashamed of physical weakness or ugliness; we might...
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'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities. 'Waters' signify particularly the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual...
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'Height' signifies what is inward, and also heaven.
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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...
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'To tell' signifies perceiving, because in the spiritual world, or in heaven, they do not need to tell what they think because they communicate every...
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The Writings tell us that the Lord's love is the sun of heaven, and it is natural for us to look above ourselves to the...
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The "high mountains being covered " (Gen. 7:19) signifies that all the good things of charity were extinguished.
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The "high mountains being covered " (Gen. 7:19) signifies that all the good things of charity were extinguished.
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The Writings tell us that the Lord's love is the sun of heaven, and it is natural for us to look above ourselves to the...
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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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Gibeah, as in 2 Samuel 6, signifies the natural or ultimate principle of the church. Gibeah, Ramah, and Bethaven, as in Hosea 5:8, denote those...
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War in the Word represents the combat of temptation when what is good is assaulted by what is evil or false. The evil that attacks...
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Being bound, as in Genesis 42:16, denotes to be separated, for he who is kept b. is separated, viz., from the spiritual good, which is...
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The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see...
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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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'The neck' signifies influx and the communication of interior and exterior levels and the following conjunction. The inmost or third heaven has reference to the...
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City of Judah,' as in Isaiah 40:9, signifies the doctrine of love towards the Lord and love towards our neighbor in its whole extent.
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'To harrow the earth' signifies to deposit in the memory.
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'Justice' signifies both good and truth.
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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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In regular language, "mercy" means being caring and compassionate toward those who are in poor states. That's a position we are all in relative to...
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In regular language, "mercy" means being caring and compassionate toward those who are in poor states. That's a position we are all in relative to...
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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...
เวลา
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...
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The meaning of "to seek" in the Bible is pretty straightforward, but there is a bit of nuance: Swedenborg tells us that in most cases...
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The meaning of "to seek" in the Bible is pretty straightforward, but there is a bit of nuance: Swedenborg tells us that in most cases...
มา
Coming (Gen. 41:14) denotes communication by influx.
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'To set a way,' as in Genesis 30:36, signifies being separated.
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It is common in the Bible for people to "rise up," and it would be easy to pass over the phrase as simply describing a...
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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....
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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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In general, mothers in the Bible represent the Lord's church on earth, or the church among those who know and follow the Lord. In some...
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'Wickedness' signifies evil, and 'iniquity' signifies falsities.
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'To hurt,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:6, signifies violation and profanation. 'To hurt' as mentioned in Revelation 9:4, signifies perverting the truths and goods of...
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