La Bibbia

 

Lamenti 2:12

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12 Essi chiedevano alle loro madri: "Dov’è il pane, dov’è il vino?…" e intanto venivano meno come de’ feriti a morte nelle piazze della città, e rendevano l’anima sul seno delle madri loro.

Commento

 

Garden

  
In the Garden, by José Navarro Llorens (1867-1923)

Plants, in general, represent knowledge, ideas, and intellectual concepts -- things of the mind. Plant the best and most beautiful of those in one place, give them plenty of water (truth from the Lord about day-to-day things), plenty of sunlight (the Lord's wisdom) and warmth (the Lord's love), tend them to keep the weeds (false ideas) out, and you get a garden. So it makes sense that a garden in the Bible represents the intellect, where with proper care we can nurture the best and most useful ideas and ways of thinking.

(Riferimenti: Arcana Coelestia 98, 100, 1588; Heaven and Hell 111)

Dalle opere di Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #98

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98. Verse 8 And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, from the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

'Garden' means intelligence, 'Eden' love, 'the east' the Lord. 'A garden in Eden, from the east' therefore means celestial man's intelligence which flows in by way of love, from the Lord.

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