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Genesis 19:6

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6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

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When people lie or speak falsely in the Bible, it represents the "falsity of faith" and the resulting "evil of faith." This is what happens when people form their ideas based on bad information and incorrect assumptions. This leads to wrong ways of thinking and evil.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 924; Arcana Coelestia 8908 [3-4], 9248)

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Arcana Coelestia # 9249

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9249. 'Do not put your hand with the wicked' means not obeying malevolent feelings. This is clear from the meaning of 'putting the hand' as obeying (for 'the hand' means power, 878, 3387, 4931-4937, 5327, 5328, 6292, 7188, 7189, 7518, 7673, 8153, 8281), and as what resides with a person, thus the person himself to the extent that he has power within him, 9133, so that 'putting one's hand with someone' means making common cause with him, which - when malevolence motivates it, meant by 'the wicked - is obeying, since malevolence is persuasive and leads a person on; and from the meaning of 'the wicked' as one who is malevolent, and in the abstract sense malevolence. The term 'in the abstract sense' is used because angels, who understand the spiritual sense of the Word, that is, who perceive the Word on a spiritual level, think and speak in the abstract, without envisaging any actual person, 4380 (end), 8343, 8985, 9007; with them the idea of a person is converted into that of some reality, 5225, 5287, 5434.

  
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