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Exodus 8:16

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16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7387

Studere hoc loco

  
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7387. 'And covered the land of Egypt' means that the natural mind became such. This is clear from the meaning of 'covering', since it is used in regard to the natural mind, as the fact that it became filled with falsities and consequent reasonings, thus became such; and from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301.

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