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Numbers 15:39

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39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that you explore not after your own heart and after your own eyes, after which you committed·​·harlotry;


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)