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siis vastake: See on paasaohver Issanda auks, kes ruttas mööda Iisraeli laste kodadest Egiptuses, kui ta nuhtles egiptlasi ja päästis meie kojad.' Siis rahvas kummardas ning heitis silmili maha.
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siis vastake: See on paasaohver Issanda auks, kes ruttas mööda Iisraeli laste kodadest Egiptuses, kui ta nuhtles egiptlasi ja päästis meie kojad.' Siis rahvas kummardas ning heitis silmili maha.
7876. 'A sign for you on the houses where you are' means that it bears witness to a will that seeks what is good. This is clear from the meaning of 'being a sign as bearing witness; and from the meaning of 'the houses' as the desires composing a will that seeks what is good, dealt with above in 7848.
7848. 'On the houses' means the desires composing a will that seeks what is good. This is clear from the meaning of 'house' as a person, dealt with in 3128, and as the human mind, 3538, 4973, 5023, 7353, consequently that which composes the will, at this point that which composes a will seeking what is good. The reason why 'house' also means the will is that a person is meant by it, and a person is a person primarily by virtue of what he wills. Furthermore, whether you say a person or his mind it amounts to the same thing. For a person is not a person by virtue of his physical body but by virtue of his mind; and what his mind is like - that is, what his understanding and will are like, primarily what his will is like - determine what kind of person he is.