Arcana Coelestia # 8056
8056. 'A land flowing with milk and honey' means where there is gladness and joy. This is clear from the meaning of 'a land flowing with milk and honey' as pleasure and delight, dealt with in 5620, 6857, and so gladness and joy. The words 'gladness and joy' are used because in the Word 'gladness' has reference to truth, and 'joy' to good; and pleasure and delight have similar reference. In addition 'milk' has reference to the truth of good, and 'honey' to the good of truth.
Mark 9:11-13
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They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
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He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
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But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
