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Genesis 32:2

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2 And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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Arcana Coelestia #4381

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4381. 'And I will move on slowly' means the subsequent state of preparation. This becomes clear from the meaning here, where the subject is the instillation of good into truth and the reception of it by truth, of 'moving on slowly' as the subsequent state of preparation.

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

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Servant

  

“Servant” literally means “a person who serves another," and its meaning is similar in reference to its spiritual meanings of the Bible. Our lives in their most outward form -- the physical actions we take and the thoughts and feelings directly connected to them -- are in a way “servants” to our deeper, more hidden, internal thoughts and desires. So in most cases, “servants” in the Bible represent things we're doing and thinking on that outward, external level. Servants can have good masters or evil ones, obviously, and a servant doing good work in service of an evil master is actually making the world a more evil place. So the precise meaning of a given servant in the Bible depends on the nature of the master he or she is serving. Finally, when the Bible is addressing the Lord's own spiritual development, “servant” represents the Lord's most outward aspect: the human body he inherited from Mary, with all its frailties and potential for temptation.