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Genesis 49:2

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2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6420

Studere hoc loco

  
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6420. 'And they exasperate him' means resistance offered by falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'exasperating' as resistance, for the amount of resistance offered determines how much exasperation takes place when conflict, to which reference is made here, arises. The fact that resistance is offered by falsities is evident from what follows below.

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