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Genesis 24:25

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25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

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Arcana Coelestia # 3028

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3028. Verses 5-6 And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman is not willing to go after me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came? And Abraham said to him, Beware that you do not by any chance take my son back there.

'The servant said to him' means the Lord's perception concerning the natural man. 'Perhaps the woman is not willing to go after me to this land' means doubt in the natural man as to whether that affection was separable. 'Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?' means whether it could nevertheless be joined to the Divine good of the Rational. 'Abraham said to him' means the Lord's perception coming from the Divine. 'Beware that you do not take my son back there' means that it could not possibly be joined.

  
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All things

  

The Lord is life itself, is the Creator of the universe, and is the source of life on an ongoing basis. So in a literal sense all things come from Him. When the Bible uses the phrase "all things," then, the meaning generally is life coming from the Lord, or the impact of the Lord's life on us, setting us in order. The Lord's concern, of course, is with spiritual things, not natural things, so the flow of His life and the order it brings affects us spiritually, not naturally, empowering and organizing our desires for good and concepts of truth.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 294, 1159; Arcana Coelestia 3017, 9398)