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Genesis 28:15

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15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

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Arcana Coelestia #3663

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3663. Arise. That this signifies provided it should elevate that good thence, is evident from the signification of “arising,” as implying some elevation (n. 2401, 2785, 2912, 2927, 3171); in the present case an elevation from such things as are signified by the “daughters of Canaan,” to such things as are signified by the “daughters of Laban,” concerning which in what follows.

  
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