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1 Mose 24:1

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1 Abraham war alt und wohl betaget, und der HERR hatte ihn gesegnet allenthalben.

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Arcana Coelestia # 3064

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3064. 'With my master Abraham' means the Divine Human. This is clear from the representation of 'Abraham' here as the Lord's Divine Human, dealt with in 2833, 2836.

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

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It's common to say “I see” when we understand something. And indeed, “seeing” in the Bible represents grasping and understanding spiritual things. So it makes sense that the eyes, which allow us to see, represent the intellect, which allows us to understand spiritual things. This can also be used in the negative, of course; the Bible speaks of people having eyes and refusing to see, and the Lord when He was in the world advised plucking out an offending eye. These represent a refusal to acknowledge truth, or being misled by falsity.