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Genezo 2:12

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12 Kaj la oro de tiu lando estas bona; tie trovigxas bedelio kaj la sxtono onikso.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #10169

Studere hoc loco

  
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10169. From these considerations it is evident that love which is indeed conjugial is a union of two people on inner levels, on the levels of thought and will, and so on those of truth and good since truth belongs to thought and good to the will. One in whom that love is present loves what the other thinks and what the other wills, and so also loves to think in the same way and to will the same things as the other does, consequently to be united to the other and become so to speak one human being. This is what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew,

And the two will become one flesh; therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Matthew 19:4-6; Genesis 2:23-24.

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

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2 Kings 11:1-2

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1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;