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Genesis 25:23

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23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations [are] in thy womb, and Two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

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In Genesis 24:49, 48:13-14, this signifies reciprocal freedom, or power to choose. (Arcana Coelestia 3159) This also signifies truth of the intellectual in the second place, and the good of the voluntary first; but this was later reversed, for Israel regarded truth in the first place. (Arcana Coelestia 6267-6269)

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 600; Genesis 24)

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Arcana Coelestia # 3326

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3326. 'Esau said, Behold, I am going to die' means that [the good of the natural] would after that rise again. This is clear from the representation of 'Esau' as the good of the natural, dealt with in 3302, 3322, and from the meaning of 'dying' as the final phase of a state when something ceases to exist, dealt with in 2908, 2912, 2917, 2923. And since the end of the previous state is the beginning of the next, 'going to die', like 'being buried', here means rising again after that. For 'being buried' means rising again, see 2916, 2917, 3256. His rising again after that implies that good will come to have priority and dominion over truth, after truth in the short term has apparently had priority, dealt with above.

  
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