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Genesis 12:2

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2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

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Father, son, mother, and daughter

  

In Luke 12:51, 53: By father against son, and by son against the father, is understood evil against truth, and truth against evil; and by mother against daughter, and by the daughter against the mother, is understood the lust of falsity against the affection of truth, and vice versa. (Apocalypse Explained 504[31])

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 504)

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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 75

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75. The evils characteristic of people devoted to self-love are, broadly speaking, contempt for others, envy, ill will toward those who do not agree with them, a consequent hostility, and various kinds of hatred, vengefulness, guile, trickery, ruthlessness, and cruelty; and wherever we find these evils we also find a contempt for the Divine and for the truths and the good practices from the Divine that are taught by the church. If such people do pay respect to these things, it is with the mouth only and not with the heart.

Further, since self-love is the source of these evils it is also the source of corresponding falsities, since evils give rise to falsities.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.