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Und so jemand eine Jungfrau betört, die nicht verlobt ist, und liegt bei ihr, so soll er sie gewißlich durch eine Heiratsgabe sich zum Weibe erkaufen.
2 Mose 22:16
Arcana Coelestia＃9189
9189. 'You shall not keep alive' means the deprivation of spiritual life. This is clear from the meaning of 'keeping alive' or 'bestowing life' as imparting spiritual life, dealt with in 5890, so that 'not keeping alive' means depriving of spiritual life. The fact that people deprive themselves of spiritual life if they join falsities arising from the evil of self-love to the truths of faith, such people being meant by 'sorcerers', see immediately above in 9188.
