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Genesis 26:18

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18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3468

Studere hoc loco

  
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3468. Verses 34-35. And Esau was a son of forty years, and he took for a woman Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah. “And Esau was a son of forty years,” signifies a state of temptation as to the natural good of truth; “and he took for a woman Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,” signifies the adjunction of natural truth from another source than from genuine truth itself; “and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah,” signifies that from this source there at first came grief.

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