Arcana Coelestia # 2687
2687. For she said, Let me not see the death of the child. That this signifies grief that it should so perish, is evident from the signification of “seeing the death,” as being to perish; and from the signification of the “child,” as being spiritual truth-explained above. Hence, and from the feeling of despair on account of the desolation of truth, it is manifest that it is interior grief that is within these words.
Numbers 21:27-30
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Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
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for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
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We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."
