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1 Mose 23:17

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17 Also ward Ephrons Acker, darin die zwiefache Höhle ist, gegen Mamre über, Abraham zum eigenen Gut bestätiget, mit der Höhle darinnen und mit allen Bäumen auf dem Acker umher,

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3136

Studere hoc loco

  
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3136. 'And behold, he was standing with the camels' means presence in general facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'standing with' as being present, and from the meaning of 'the camels' as general facts, dealt with in 3048, 3071.

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

Commentarius

 

Straw

  

The word 'straw,' as in Genesis 24:25, signifies scientific truths, because it is food for camels.

In Isaiah 11:6, this signifies the Word in the letter, which is perverted by hellish falsity, but cannot be perverted people who are in truths from good.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 3114; Exodus 24, 25)