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Genesis 24:50

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50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from Jehovah. We cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

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Judges 3:7

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7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3130

Studere hoc loco

  
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3130. 'His name was Laban' means the essential nature of that affection. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' as a person's character or nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724. Here therefore 'Laban' means the essential nature of that affection which is being dealt with.

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