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Jonah 4:1

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1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

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Sufficiency

  

'Sufficiency' relates to the reception of good, because good is the spiritual nourishment of the soul, as natural food is the nourishment of the body.

(Verweise: Apocalypse Explained 376 [1-40])

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #215

  
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215. Internal Meaning of Micah, Chapter 1 (1)

The church in respect to the doctrine of truth and good. (1)

1-2 The descent of the Lord from heaven, and His coming into the world. (1)

3 The state of heaven then became changed. (12)

4-7 Then all the representatives of the church, which had been totally falsified, will be destroyed. (3, 10)

8-12 Consequent mourning, and that it will extend even to those who were in celestial good. (3)

13-15 Hence even these will begin to be perverted. (3)

16 Consequently they also will suffer deprivation of all truth. (3)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.