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Genesis 50:3

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3 And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6542

Studere hoc loco

  
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6542. 'And they said, This is an intense mourning for the Egyptians means that the grief existed with factual knowledge prior to the introduction of it into the truths of the Church. This is clear from what has been stated above in 6579, where these matters are explained.

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