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Genesis 31:8

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8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4173

Studere hoc loco

  
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4173. 'From my hand you required it' means that it came from Himself. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with in 878, 3387, and so that which came from Himself, since that which is from His own power comes from Himself.

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