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As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
1 Samuel 17:23
Pursue
'To pursue,' as in Genesis 14:16, signifies a state of purification, because 'to pursue enemies' is the expulsion of evils and falsities which were with goods and truths and so appeared like goods and truths, and then delivery and purification of those goods and truths.
(Reference: Arcana Coelestia 1710)
