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1 Mose 35:11

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11 Und Gott sprach zu ihm: Ich bin der allmächtige Gott; sei fruchtbar und mehre dich; Völker und Völkerhaufen sollen von dir kommen, und Könige sollen aus deinen Lenden kommen.

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Arcana Coelestia #4667

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4667. 'Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan' means the Lord's Divine Natural, which existed in accord with and beneath Divine Rational Good. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as living, dealt with in 1293, 3384, 3613, 4451; from the representation of 'Jacob' in the highest sense as the Lord's Divine Natural, dealt with in 3305, 3509, 3525, 3544, 3576, 3599, 3775, 4009, 4234, 4286, 4538, 4570; from the representation of Isaac, to whom 'father' refers here, as the Lord's Divine Rational as regards good, dealt with in 1893, 2066, 2630, 3012, 3194, 3210; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' in the highest sense as the Lord's Divine Human, dealt with in 3038, 3705. From all this one may now see that 'Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan' means the Lord's Divine Natural living together with, or in accord with and beneath, Divine Rational Good, within the Divine Human. The fact that the Lord's Natural now had everything Divine within it has been dealt with already at Chapter 35:22-26, see 4602-4610; and the fact that the Lord's Divine Natural was joined to His Divine Rational, at verses 27-29 of that same chapter, see 4611-4619. What is said now forms a conclusion, namely that the Divine Natural led a life in accord with and beneath Divine Rational Good.

[2] The phrase 'beneath Divine Rational Good' is used because the Natural lives beneath that Good. For the Rational is higher or more internal - or prior, to use the customary expression - whereas the Natural is lower or more external, and therefore posterior. Thus the Natural is subordinate to the Rational; indeed when they accord with each other the Natural is nothing else than the general outline of the Rational, for whatever the Natural possesses does not belong to it but to the Rational, the only difference between the two being like that between particular aspects and their general outline, or like that between individual details and the form in which those details are seen as a single whole. It is well known to the learned that the end in view constitutes the whole within the cause, and the cause the whole within the effect so that the cause is the outward form given to the end, and the effect the outward form given to the cause. Consequently the effect altogether ceases to exist if you take away the cause, and the cause altogether ceases to exist if you take away the end. Also, the cause comes beneath the end, and the effect beneath the cause. The relationship between the Natural and the Rational is similar to all this.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1437

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1437. 'They came out to go into the land of Canaan' means that in this manner He drew closer to the celestial things of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan'. That 'the land of Canaan' represents the Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth becomes clear from many things in the Word. The reason it does so is that the representative Church was established in that land, a Church in which every single thing represented the Lord and the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom. This applied not only to religious observances but also to everything associated with those observances - to both the persons who ministered and to the things they administered, and even to the places where the ministrations took place because the representative Church was centred there the land was consequently called 'the Holy Land', even though it was anything but holy, seeing that idolaters and profaners inhabited it. This then is the reason why 'the land of Canaan' here and in what follows means the celestial things of love Indeed the celestial things of love, these alone, exist in the Lord's kingdom and constitute that kingdom

  
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