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Numbers 15:36

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36 And all the congregation brought· him ·out to outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

Commentarius

 

Soul going forth and dying

  

'The soul going forth and dying,' as in Genesis 35:18, signifies the extreme of temptation, which is when the old self dies and the new one receives life.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 4590)