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Bereshit 24:38

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38 אם־לא אל־בית־אבי תלך ואל־משפחתי ולקחת אשה לבני׃

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3072

Studere hoc loco

  
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3072. Her hast Thou appointed for Thy servant Isaac. That this signifies the conjunction of truth Divine with Divine good in the rational, is evident from the signification of “appointing,” that is to say, for a wife, as being to conjoin by a covenant of marriage, and from the representation of Isaac, as being the Divine good of the rational (see n. 3024). That “she,” or Rebekah, represents the truth Divine that is to be conjoined with the Divine good of the rational, has been stated above in several places; and the same is evident from the particulars in the internal sense of this chapter.

  
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