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Numbers 18:16

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16 And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five sicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #9469

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9469. 'And fine linen' means the truth from this, that is to say, from the good which has a celestial origin. 'Flax' or 'linen' means truth, see 7601, and 'fine linen' means truth from the Divine, 5319; both kinds of truth exist in the natural man. 'Fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin because of its whiteness and softness.

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