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Genesis 4:14

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14 Təstaɣaɣ-i azala fəl tasayt n aṃadal amaran ənamaggaga dər-ək, aba as daɣ-i təṣaggada. Ad əqqəla amajjawankay n ənəbbennən daɣ əddənet amaran i di igrawan ad-i-anɣu.»

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #372

Studere hoc loco

  
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372. 'To be a keeper' means to serve, in the way that gate-keepers and door-keepers did in the Jewish Church. Faith is called the keeper of charity from the fact that it ought to be the servant. But it accorded with the basic assumptions of that doctrine to say that faith was to have dominion, as stated at verse 7.

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

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Genesis 4:7

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7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."