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Genesis 44:31

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31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father, with sorrow to the grave.

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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)

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Arcana Coelestia # 5752

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5752. 'And spoke those words to them' means the influx of this thing. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking' as an influx, dealt with in 2951, 3037, 5481, and from the meaning of 'words' as things, for in the original language the expression 'word' is also used to mean 'thing'.

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