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Exodus 1:10

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10 Velan, lad os gå klogt til Værks imod dem, for at de ikke skal blive for mange; ellers kan det hænde, når vi kommer i Krig, at de går over til vore Modstandere og kæmper mod os og til sidst forlader Landet!"


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Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

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Arcana Coelestia # 6658

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6658. 'And go up out of the land' means that the Church will have thereby been established. This is clear from the meaning of 'going up' as being raised up, raised up towards more internal aspects of the Church, dealt with in 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007; and from the meaning of 'the land', the land of Goshen in this instance, as the Church, dealt with above in 6649. Being raised up towards more internal aspects of the Church, meant by going up out of the land and coming into the land of Canaan, is what 'the Church will have been established' implies. The Church has, it is true, been established with a person when he is motivated by affection to do good, yet it has not been fully established until after he has fought against evils and falsities, thus after he has undergone temptations. Only after that does he become truly a Church, at which point he is brought into heaven, represented by the bringing of the children of Israel into the land of Canaan.

  
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