Arcana Coelestia＃8323
8323. 'You have possessed' means who have thereby become the Lord's. This is clear from the meaning of 'possessing' as being His. Because the subject at this point is those governed by truth and good whom the Lord came into the world to save, it is they who are meant as being the Lord's. Elsewhere they are called 'the redeemed', as in Isaiah,
Were You not that which dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, which made the deep places of the sea a road, In order that the redeemed might pass through? So let the redeemed of Jehovah return. Isaiah 51:10-11.
Exodus 15:17-19
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You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
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Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
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For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
