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Genesis 44:17

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17 And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go in peace to your father.

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Country

  
This World War I poster shows the nations allied against the Axis countries.

Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king or chieftain. Others are what we now call city-states, with surrounding farm areas. In almost all cases these countries were far smaller than our modern idea of countries, though Egypt and Assyria would be exceptions. Sometimes the word is used to refer to countryside, a wide area with no consideration of boundaries as when the twelve Israelites were sent to spy out the country.

(Referencias: Arcana Coelestia 3816 [3], 6818, 6820, 6821; Charity 83, 85; True Christian Religion 305)

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Arcana Coelestia #5785

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5785. 'God has found out the iniquity of your servants' means a confession, a confession that they had acted iniquitously, in this case by selling Joseph, by which is meant in the internal sense that they had alienated themselves from truth and goodness, and so had separated themselves from the internal. This is clear without explanation.

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