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Exodus 7:13

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13 And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had commanded.

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Arcana Coelestia # 7304

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7304. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means Divine instruction. This is clear from the meaning of 'said', when something is commanded anew, as instruction, dealt with in 7186, 7267, 7288, at this point - since Jehovah was the speaker - Divine instruction, that is to say, instruction about further action.

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

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Heart

  
by Caleb Kerr

The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor, while a hard or stony heart means the love of self or the world -- riches and things. When the psalmist asks the Lord to search his heart, he wants the Lord to see what it is that he loves. And we are what we love. What we eat may form our earthly body, but it's only temporary, what we love forms our spiritual body, beautiful or ugly as we have chosen. It's interesting to note that the first multi-cellular motion of our embryo is the pulsating that starts in a twist of blood vessel that is to become our heart, and the last motion of our natural body is our heartbeat. It is there for all of our natural life. And of course there is a beating heart in our spiritual bodies when we come to put them on.