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Genesis 44:29

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29 Si tuleritis et istum, et aliquid ei in via contigerit, deducetis canos meos cum mœrore ad inferos.

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Arcana Coelestia # 5775

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5775. ‘Et intravit Jehudah et fratres ejus’: quod significet bonum Ecclesiae cum veris suis, constat a repraesentatione ‘Jehudae’ quod sit bonum Ecclesiae, de qua n. 5583, 5603; et ex repraesentatione ‘fratrum ejus’ quod 1 sint vera in naturali. Quod Jehudah intravit et locutus cum Josepho, non autem Reuben primogenitus, aut alius ex illis, est quia ‘Jehudah’ principaliter repraesentabat bonum, et bonum est quod communicat cum caelesti ex Divino, non autem vera, nam vera nullam communicationem habent cum Divino nisi per bonum; inde est quod Jehudah solus locutus.

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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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Servant

  

“Servant” literally means “a person who serves another," and its meaning is similar in reference to its spiritual meanings of the Bible. Our lives in their most outward form -- the physical actions we take and the thoughts and feelings directly connected to them -- are in a way “servants” to our deeper, more hidden, internal thoughts and desires. So in most cases, “servants” in the Bible represent things we're doing and thinking on that outward, external level. Servants can have good masters or evil ones, obviously, and a servant doing good work in service of an evil master is actually making the world a more evil place. So the precise meaning of a given servant in the Bible depends on the nature of the master he or she is serving. Finally, when the Bible is addressing the Lord's own spiritual development, “servant” represents the Lord's most outward aspect: the human body he inherited from Mary, with all its frailties and potential for temptation.