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El cordero será sin defecto, macho de un año: tomaréislo de las ovejas ó de las cabras:
Éxodo 12:5
Arcana Coelestia＃7837
7837. 'A perfect member' means spotless innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'a member of the flock' as innocence, dealt with above in 7832; and from the meaning of 'perfect' as without blemishes, and so spotless. The reason why it had to be without blemishes and spotless was that any blemish means in the spiritual world some falsity or evil.
