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무리가 술을 마시고는 그 금,은,동,철,목,석으로 만든 신들을 찬양하니라
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또 느부갓네살의 예루살렘 하나님의 전 속에서 금,은 기명을 옮겨다가 바벨론 신당에 두었던 것을 고레스 왕이 그 신당에서 취하여 그 세운 총독 세스바살이라 이름한 자에게 내어주고
Arcana Coelestia # 7999
7999. 'A purchase paid for with silver' means who is in possession of some spiritual truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a purchase' as that which is acquired and made one's own, dealt with in 4397, 4487, 5374, 5397, 5406, 5410, 5426; and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954, 5658, at this point spiritual truth since a slave who was bought means in the internal sense the natural man, and the master who bought him therefore means the spiritual man. No one can know what this really implies unless he knows in what way the spiritual buys the natural for itself, that is, acquires and makes it its own. When a person is being regenerated his internal and external, that is, his spiritual and natural, are at variance with each other at first; for his spiritual desires the things of heaven, whereas his natural desires those of the world. But at this time the spiritual is constantly entering the natural and bringing it into agreement. This is done by means of truth; and what the spiritual brings into agreement with itself within the natural is said to be 'bought with silver', that is, acquired and made its own by means of truth.
