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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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To some degree, there really is no spiritual meaning to the word “love” in the Bible. Why? Because if you truly love another, that is...
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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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'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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'Silver,' in the internal sense of the Word, signifies truth, but also falsity. 'Silver' means the truth of faith, or the truth acquired from selfhood,...
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Fifteen, as in Genesis 7:20, signifies so few as to be scarce anything.
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Five also signifies all things of one part.
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A 'Homer,' or 'measure' denotes a sufficient quantity.
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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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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 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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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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Behind, or after, (Gen. 16:13), signifies within or above, or an interior or superior principle.
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Everyone knows the phrase "the natural order of things." It means that everything is in its proper place, occupying the niche it is meant to...
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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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David is one of the most significant figures in the Bible. He was a musician, one of history’s greatest poets, the boy warrior who killed...
