Arcana Coelestia # 7832
7832. 'They shall take for themselves each one a member of the flock' means in respect of innocence. This is clear from the meaning of a lamb or she-goat, to which 'a member of the flock' refers here, as innocence, 'a lamb' innocence in the interior man, 'a she-goat' innocence in the exterior man, 3519.
Judges 13:22-23
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Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."
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But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these."
