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Exodus 34:6

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6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

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This is a wall-painting at the Elston Chapel in Nottinghamshire, England. The photograph is part of the Geograph Project, created to collect images of historic sites in the U.K. and Ireland.

The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.

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Arcana Coelestia # 10695

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10695. 'And Moses called to them' means the approach of that nation to the outward form. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling to them' as the approach of that nation, for one who is called approaches; and from the representation of 'Moses' as the outward form that the Word takes, containing what is inward, dealt with immediately above in 10694.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.