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Genesis 31:3

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3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4090

Studere hoc loco

  
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4090. 'Where you anointed a pillar' means where the good of truth exists, and the boundary of it. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pillar' as a holy boundary and so the ultimate degree of order, and therefore as truth, dealt with in 3727, and from the meaning of 'anointing', or pouring oil, as Jacob did, over the head of the pillar, as making truth good, dealt with in 3728.

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