Bible

 

Genesis 30:40

Studie

       

40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not with Laban's cattle.

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 4014

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

4014. 'And hazel and plane' means the power deriving from this which natural truths possess. This is clear from the meaning of 'hazel and plane' as natural truths. This meaning which these trees have cannot be demonstrated in the same way from other places in the Word because they are not mentioned anywhere else, except for the following reference to 'the plane trees' in Ezekiel,

The cedars did not hide it in the garden of God, the fir trees were not equal to its branches, and the plane trees were nothing compared to its branches. No tree was equal to it in its beauty. Ezekiel 31:8.

This refers to the facts and to the rational concepts present in the member of the spiritual Church. 'The garden of God' means the spiritual Church, 'the cedars' rational concepts, 'the fir trees' and 'the plane trees' natural ideas - 'the fir trees' natural ideas involving good, 'the plane trees' those involving truth.

  
/ 10837  
  

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