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Genesis 38:15

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15 When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4895

Studere hoc loco

  
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4895. And said, I have not found her. That this signifies that this cannot be disclosed by falsity, is evident from the signification of “not having found,” as being not to have disclosed; and because the Adullamite says this, by whom falsity is signified (as above, n. 4894), it follows that by his saying “I have not found her” is signified that falsity could not disclose it, or that this cannot be disclosed by falsity.

  
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