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出埃及記 18:14

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14 摩西的岳父見他向百姓所做的一切事,就:你向百姓做的是甚麼事呢?你為甚麼獨自坐著,眾百姓從到晚都站在你的左右呢?

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #8795

Studere hoc loco

  
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8795. 'Saying, Take care not to go up into the mountain' means that there must be no extension whatever to celestial communities which have the love of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'going up' as extending to the Divine as He exists in a higher heaven; and from the meaning of 'the mountain' as the good of love there, dealt with in 4210, 6435, 8327, 8758. The nature of all this is clear from the explanation immediately above in 8794.

  
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