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Numbers 32:4

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4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."

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Explanation of Numbers 32:4

Napsal(a) Henry MacLagan

Verse 4. Have been devoted to the merely natural life, and are now subdued by the Lord and rendered useful to the man of the church; and that the external man is delighted with such things and possesses such things.

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Arcana Coelestia # 8796

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8796. 'Or to touch the border of it' means that there must be no extension even to intermediate parts. This is clear from the meaning of 'the border' as intermediate parts, for the Lord's celestial kingdom, which is the inmost or third heaven, is separated from the spiritual kingdom, which is the second or middle heaven, by intermediate parts. The celestial kingdom flows through these into the spiritual kingdom, but not the latter into the former; for all influx takes place by way of intermediate parts from interiors into exteriors, but not from exteriors into interiors, 5259, 5779. From all this it is evident that the intermediate parts are borders, and that not even the edges of the good of the celestial kingdom can be reached by those belonging to the spiritual kingdom, 2718, 3833, 6500, 8521. So it is that 'taking care not to touch the border of the mountain' means that there must be no extension to celestial communities who have the love of good, or even to intermediate parts.

  
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