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Ezekiel 20:25

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25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

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Ezekiel 20:31

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31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #10499

Studere hoc loco

  
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10499. 'And now I shall go up to Jehovah' means the raising of more internal things to the Lord. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the internal, dealt with above in 10468; and from the meaning of 'going up' as a raising towards more internal levels, dealt with in 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007, at this point a raising to the Lord since it says 'I shall go up to Jehovah' and 'Jehovah' is used in the Word to mean the Lord, see in the places referred to in 9373. The situation in all this may be recognized from what has been shown regarding the raising up to heaven or to the Lord of the internal things of the Word, the Church, and worship, that is, regarding the raising of them from the external things among the Israelite nation, in 4311, 4444, 6304, 8588, 8788, 8806.

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