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Genesis 32:5

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5 Habeo boves, et asinos, et oves, et servos, et ancillas : mittoque nunc legationem ad dominum meum, ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo.

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Arcana Coelestia # 4370

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4370. ‘Accipe quaeso benedictionem quae adducta tibi’: quod significet Divina quae adjungenda Divino Bono naturali, constat ex significatione 'benedictionis hic quod sint illa quae in capite praecedente xxxii vers. 14, 15 1 memorata sunt, per quae quod Divina bona et vera cum illorum servitiis per quae initiatio fieret, significata sint, videatur n. 4263, 4264; quae quod adjungenda Divino Bono naturali, supra n. 4364 explicatum est.

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1. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.

  
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This is the Third Latin Edition, published by the Swedenborg Society, in London, between 1949 and 1973.

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In most cases, the meaning of "before" is pretty straightforward, both as a way of assessing relative time, and in its use meaning "in someone's presence." It takes on a deeper significance, though, when used in connection with the Lord. To be "before" the Lord means not just in His presence, but also receiving the desire for good and the understanding of truth from Him, and living according to them. And when used as an assessment of time in connection with the Lord, "before" means "from eternity," and refers to a spiritual state rather than time as we experience it.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 366, 617; Arcana Coelestia 6983, 8439, 9888)