The Bible

 

Genesis 22:2

Study

       

2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #2789

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

2789. 'And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw' means thought and insight received from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'the eyes' as intelligence, dealt with in 2701, so that 'lifting up the eyes' means raising one's intelligence, thus thinking; and from the meaning of 'seeing' as receiving insight from the Divine, since this experience is used to refer to the Lord.

  
/ 10837  
  

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