Arcana Coelestia #5735

By Emanuel Swedenborg

Studere hoc loco

  
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5735. And put everyone’s silver in his bag’s mouth. That this signifies together with truth anew in the exterior natural, is evident from the signification of “silver,” as being truth (see n. 1551, 2954, 5658); and from the signification of the “bag’s mouth,” as being the threshold of the exterior natural (see n. 5497). (What the exterior natural is, and what the interior, may be seen above, n. 4570, 5118, 5126, 5497, 5649.) That it is truth anew, is because silver was once before placed in their bag’s mouth (Genesis 42:25, 27-28, 35).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.