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Genesis 17:18

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18 Ja Aabraham ütles Jumalale: 'Kui ainult Ismaelgi sinu ees jääks elama!'

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #2030

Studere hoc loco

  
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2030. 'And I will be their God' means that God is one. This is clear from the fact that here the subject is the Lord's Human Essence that was to be united to the Divine Essence and so means that the Human Essence as well was to become God. Thus 'I will be their God' means in the internal sense that God is one.

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