Title: Nowhere to Lay His Head

Topic: The Word

Summary: How can we provide the Lord a place to lay his head?

References:
Judges 15:3-5
Nehemiah 4:1-3
Lamentations 5:15-18
Ezekiel 13:3-5
Luke 13:31-33
Isaiah 2:19; 42:21-22
Jeremiah 16:16-17
Ezekiel 8:6-10
Micah 7:16-17
2 Samuel 21:9-10
1 Kings 14:11
Job 12:7-8
Hosea 7:11-12
Luke 8:5
Acts 10:9-14
Proverbs 27:8
Isaiah 34:8-11, 13-16
Jeremiah 49:15-16
Mark 10:33-34
Matthew 25:31-33
Luke 19:9-10
Isaiah 35:10
Ezekiel 9:10; 16:43
Job 16:15-16
Matthew 8:18-20

This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.

9005. 'She shall go out for nothing, for no silver' means alienation from that [spiritual truth], without truth joined to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'going out' - out of servitude and from concubinage - as abandonment by the man, her master, and so alienation; and from the meaning of 'for nothing, for no silver' as without truth joined to it, 'silver' meaning truth, see 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 8932. The nature of all this is clear from what has been shown just above in 9003 namely this: A natural affection joined to a spiritual truth, meant by 'a female slave betrothed to a son', cannot survive at all unless it is sustained by the spiritual. Therefore if the affection is not sustained by this, the connection between them is broken and it is consequently alienated. The reason why this happens without the truth from the spiritual joined to that natural affection is that this affection goes on to be linked to another [truth]; but this cannot happen while truth from elsewhere is the source of its life. All this is meant by the words under consideration here because the situation with relationships in the spiritual world is such.