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Genesis 43:2

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2 Consumptisque cibis quos ex Ægypto detulerant, dixit Jacob ad filios suos : Revertimini, et emite nobis pauxillum escarum.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5600

Studere hoc loco

  
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5600. 'Have you a brother?' means regarding interior truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Benjamin' as the spiritual of the celestial, or what amounts to the same, the truth of good, which is interior truth. For 'Benjamin' is truth that has good within it, or the spiritual of the celestial, see 3969, 4592. This interior truth is what acts as the intermediary between truth from the Divine and truth within the natural.

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