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Genesis 4:9

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9 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Cain, Saan naroon si Abel na iyong kapatid? At sinabi niya, Aywan ko: ako ba'y tagapagbantay sa aking kapatid?

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #419

Studere hoc loco

  
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419. As celestial things are the holy things of love and the derivative goods, so spiritual things are the truths and goods of faith; for it belongs to faith to understand not only what is true, but also what is good. The knowledges of faith involve both. But to be such as faith teaches is celestial. As faith involves both of these, they are signified by two instruments, the harp and the organ. The harp, as everyone knows, is a stringed instrument, and therefore signifies spiritual truth; but the organ, being intermediate between a stringed instrument and a wind instrument, signifies spiritual good.

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

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Psalms 69:31

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31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.