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Genesis 2:16

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16 And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat;

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #103

Studere hoc loco

  
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103. The reason why “trees” here signify perceptions is that the celestial man is treated of, but it is otherwise when the subject is the spiritual man, for on the nature of the subject depends that of the predicate.

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