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synty 43:4

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4 Jos annat veljemme seurata meidän mukanamme, niin me lähdemme ostamaan sinulle elintarpeita.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5626

Studere hoc loco

  
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5626. 'And take your brother' means that by that self-submission they would receive the good of faith. This is clear from the representation of Simeon, 1 to whom 'brother' whom they were to take refers here, as faith in the will, dealt with in 3869-3872, 4497, 4502, 4503, 5482, and so the good of faith since the truth of faith becomes the good of faith when it passes over into the will. For when this happens that truth passes over into the person's life, and when it is there it is not seen as something to be known but as something to be done. That truth then changes its essential nature and becomes truth realized in action, as a consequence of which it is no longer called truth but good.

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1. The brother referred to at this point was in fact Benjamin, whose spiritual representation is indicated in 5600

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

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5600

Studere hoc loco

  
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5600. 'Have you a brother?' means regarding interior truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Benjamin' as the spiritual of the celestial, or what amounts to the same, the truth of good, which is interior truth. For 'Benjamin' is truth that has good within it, or the spiritual of the celestial, see 3969, 4592. This interior truth is what acts as the intermediary between truth from the Divine and truth within the natural.

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