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Bereshit 4:20

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20 ותלד עדה את־יבל הוא היה אבי ישב אהל ומקנה׃

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #423

Studere hoc loco

  
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423. Tubal-cain is called 'a teacher of every craftsman' but not 'a father' as Jabal and Jubal have been. The reason is that celestial and spiritual, or internal, things did not exist previously. Those two are called fathers because those things first existed at that point, whereas natural or external things did exist previously, though now allied to internal things. Therefore he is not called 'a father' but 'a teacher of craftsmen'.

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