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라반이 야곱에게 대답하여 가로되 `딸들은 내 딸이요, 자식들은 내 자식이요, 양떼는 나의 양떼요, 네가 보는 것은 다 내 것이라 내가 오늘날 내 딸들과 그 낳은 자식들에게 어찌할 수 있으랴 ?
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Arcana Coelestia＃3973
3973. Send me away, and I will go to my place, and to my land. That this signifies that there was then a longing of the natural represented by Jacob for a state of conjunction with the Divine of the rational, is evident from the representation of Jacob, who speaks these words, as being the good of natural truth (n. 3972); from the signification of “place,” as being state (n. 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387); and from the signification of “land” here, as being the Divine of the rational; for by “my land” is meant his father Isaac and his mother Rebekah, as it was to them he desired to be sent and to go. (That “Isaac” is the Divine rational as to good, may be seen above, n. 2083, 2630, 3012, 3194, 3210; and also that “Rebekah” is Divine truth conjoined with the Divine good of the rational, n. 3012, 3013, 3077.) That a longing for conjunction is signified, is evident from the affection contained in the words.
