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Genezo 2:15

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15 Kaj Dio la Eternulo prenis la homon kaj enlogxigis lin en la gxardeno Edena, por ke li prilaboradu gxin kaj gardu gxin.

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Arcana Coelestia # 145

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145. In the Word too 'name' means the essential nature of a real thing, and 'seeing and calling by name' knowing characters, as in Isaiah,

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoarded riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Jehovah, the one calling you by name, the God of Israel. For the sake of My servant Jacob, and of Israel My chosen, and I have called you by name, I have surnamed you, but you do not know Me. Isaiah 45:3-4.

Here 'calling by name' and 'surnaming' mean knowing his character beforehand. In the same prophet,

You will be called by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah will declare. Isaiah 62:2.

This stands for his becoming a different person, as is clear from what precedes and what follows these words. In the same prophet,

O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1.

This stands for knowing character. Again in the same prophet,

Lift up your eyes on high and see; who created these? He who brings out their host by number; He will call them all by name. Isaiah 40:26.

This stands for His knowing them all. In Revelation,

You have a few names in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. Revelation 3:4-5.

Elsewhere in the same book,

Whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb. Revelation 13:8.

In these places 'names' is in no way used to mean names but people's characters. Nor in heaven do they know anyone's name, only his character.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 9550

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9550. 'Solid shall the lampstand be made' means that all of it must spring from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'solid' as the entire whole, consequently as the necessity for all of it to spring from good, which is meant by 'gold'. For the whole of the spiritual, meant by 'the lampstand' since it serves to shed light, arises from the celestial and is also kept in constant being by means of it, even as all truth springs from good. If you take away good, truth is instantly wiped out; for the soul of truth is good. It is like an affection belonging to love and its link to thought. If that affection is taken away, the thought is immediately wiped out; for the affection is the actual life or the soul of the thought. Every affection belonging to love has connection with good, and every thought springing from it has connection with truth. The truth which springs from good is called spiritual, and the good from which the truth springs is called celestial.

  
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