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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 #5941

Studere hoc loco

  
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5941. 'And take your father and your households, and come to me' means the drawing of spiritual good and of the truths of the Church nearer to factual knowledge in the natural. This is clear from the representation of Israel, to whom 'father' refers here, as spiritual good, as in 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5837; from the representation of 'his sons' as the truths of the Church within the natural, dealt with in 5414, 5879, all of which are 'their households'; from the meaning of 'coming' as drawing nearer; and from the representation of Pharaoh, to whom 'me', the one they were to come to, refers here, as factual knowledge in general within the natural. From all this it is evident that 'take your father and your households, and come to me' means the drawing of spiritual good and of the truths of the Church nearer to factual knowledge in the natural.

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