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Exodus 12:17

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17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7866

Studere hoc loco

  
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7866. 'And you shall eat it in haste' means their feeling in their state of separation. This is clear from the meaning of 'haste' as a feeling, since haste is the expression of a feeling, dealt with in 7695. Here it is their feeling in their state of separation, for they had been separated from the molesters, who are meant by 'the Egyptians'.

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