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Genesis 31:41

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41 I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4123

Studere hoc loco

  
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4123. 'For seven days' means the holiness of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a way' as truth, dealt with in 627, 2333, and from the meaning of 'seven' as holiness, dealt with in 395, 433, 716, 881. Here the meaning is that there was an intense desire to be joined, that is, to join itself to the holiness of truth:

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