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At ang kanilang buong yaman, at ang lahat ng kanilang mga anak, at mga asawa, ay dinala nilang bihag at samsam, sa makatuwid baga'y lahat na nasa bahay.
Genesis 34:29
Slain by Jehovah
In Isaiah 66:16, this signifies people who turn truths into falsities by which they perish spiritually. (Apocalypse Revealed 139)
In Nahum 3:3, this signifies the state of people who perished in the flood from falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 309-311)
In Lamentations 2:21, this signifies the extinction of people of the devastated church. (Arcana Coelestia 315[9])
Father and mother, which a man is to leave
The "father and mother", which a man is supposed to leave (as in Genesis 2:24, and Matthew 19:4, 5) are, in a spiritual sense, his proprium of will, and proprium of understanding. We all love a mixture of good and evil things, as we're growing up, and we all understand a mixture of true and false things, too. The things we "own", at first, are the evil loves and false ideas, and the more we get into them, the more they define us -- i.e. they are our "properties", or, to use a more Latinate term, our proprium. We have to change those -- get rid of the evil loves and false ideas, and invite good loves and true ideas from the Lord -- building a new understanding and a new will.
(Odkazy: Conjugial Love 194)
