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Genesis 45:26

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26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5940

Studere hoc loco

  
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5940. 'And go, get you to the land of Canaan' means their dwelling-place, that is to say, that of the truths of the Church within the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the dwelling-place of those who belonged to the Church, dealt with in 3705, 3686, 4447, 4454, 4517, 5136, and so the dwelling-place of the truths of the Church together with good, for truths together with good constitute the Church.

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

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Joshua 24:32

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32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.