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2 Mose 17:16

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16 Denn er sprach: Es ist ein Malzeichen bei dem Stuhl des HERRN, daß der HERR streiten wird wider Amalek von Kind zu Kindeskind.

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Israel

  

'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.

In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 768)


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Arcana Coelestia # 8584

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8584. 'And let the people drink' means that those truths will refresh them and impart spiritual life. This is clear from the meaning of 'drinking' as receiving instruction in the truths of faith, thus imparting and refreshing spiritual life, dealt with above in 8562.

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