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Exodus 12:27

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27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

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.