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Exodus 2:21

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21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6730

Studere hoc loco

  
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6730. 'To wash at the river' means worship involving the use of falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing' as purification from what is understood spiritually by filth, dealt with in 3147, worship consequently being meant since worship takes place for the sake of purification; and from the meaning of 'the river', in this case the river of Egypt, as falsity, dealt with in 6693.

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