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Genesis 42:21

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21 And they say one unto another, `Verily we [are] guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #5418

Studere hoc loco

  
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5418. 'He was selling to all the people of the land' means that this was what effected every making over. This is clear from the meaning of 'selling' as making over to another as his own, dealt with in 5371, 5374; and from the meaning of 'the people of the land' as truths known to the Church, dealt with in 2928, in this case truths in the natural, 5409.

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