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Genesis 44:8

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8 The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5755

Studere hoc loco

  
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5755. 'Far be it from your servants to do a thing such as this' means when this thing - laying claim to truth as their own - is not the intention of their will. This is clear from the meaning of 'doing' as the intention of the will, for all deeds are acts of the will. A deed is in itself something natural, whereas the will is something spiritual from which the deed springs. 'Far be it from your servants' means it is not so - not intended by the will.

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