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1 Mose 24:8

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8 So aber das Weib dir nicht folgen will, so bist du dieses Eides quitt. Alleine bringe meinen Sohn nicht wieder dorthin.

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Arcana Coelestia # 3054

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3054. 'He made the camels kneel down' means a holy ordering of general facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'making them kneel down' as ordering themselves into a holy array, and from the meaning of 'the camels' as general facts, dealt with just above in 3048.

  
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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.