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Ezekiel 32:3

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3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1809

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1809.'If you are able to count them' means the fruitfulness of love and the multiplication of faith, or what amounts to the same, the fruitfulness of good and the multiplication of truth. This meaning - namely, that these are not able to be counted - becomes clear without explanation.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Country

  
This World War I poster shows the nations allied against the Axis countries.

Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king or chieftain. Others are what we now call city-states, with surrounding farm areas. In almost all cases these countries were far smaller than our modern idea of countries, though Egypt and Assyria would be exceptions. Sometimes the word is used to refer to countryside, a wide area with no consideration of boundaries as when the twelve Israelites were sent to spy out the country.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 3816 [3], 6818, 6820, 6821; Charity 83, 85; True Christian Religion 305)