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Exodus 13:8

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8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #8089

Studere hoc loco

  
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8089. 'And all the firstborn of my sons I redeem' means that the truths of faith are not to be ascribed to the Lord, but forms of the good of faith. This is clear from the explanation above in 8080, where similar words occur.

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

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Exodus 34:18

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18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the springtime thou camest out from Egypt.