Arcana Coelestia # 710
710. 'Enter, you and all your house, into the ark' means things that constitute the will. This is clear from what has just been stated. In the previous chapter, which dealt with things of the understanding, verse 18 reads differently, namely 'You shall enter into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you'. That 'a house' means the will and what constitutes the will is clear from various places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,
Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives together. Jeremiah 6:11.
Here both 'houses' and 'fields and wives' refers to things of the will. In the same prophet,
Build houses and dwell in them; and plant gardens and eat their fruit. Jeremiah 29:5, 28.
Here 'building and dwelling in houses' has to do with the will, 'planting gardens' with the understanding. The same applies in other places. And frequently 'the house of Jehovah' stands for the Church where love is the chief thing. 'The house of Judah' stands for the celestial Church, 'the house of Israel' for the spiritual Church, because 'a house' means the Church. Consequently the mind of the member of the Church, which has within it things of the will and those of the understanding, that is, of charity and of faith, is meant by 'a house'.
Daniel 12
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"At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
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Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
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But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
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Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
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One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
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I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
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I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
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He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
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Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
11
From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
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Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
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But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
