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and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.
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and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob.
'To pursue,' as in Genesis 14:16, signifies a state of purification, because 'to pursue enemies' is the expulsion of evils and falsities which were with goods and truths and so appeared like goods and truths, and then delivery and purification of those goods and truths.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1710)