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Genesis 31:34

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34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

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Arcana Coelestia #4182

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4182. 'My affliction and the tiredness of my hands God has seen, and has given judgement last night' means that all things were effected by Him by His own power. This is clear from the meaning of 'affliction and tiredness of hands' in this case as temptations. And since by temptations and victories the Lord united the Divine to the Human and made the Human Divine too, doing so by His own power, these things are therefore meant by these same words. By temptations and victories the Lord united the Divine to the Human, and made the Human Divine by His own power, see 1661, 1737, 1813, 1921, 2776, 3318 (end). 'Palms or hand means power, 878, 3387, and therefore 'my palms' or 'my hands' means one's own power. 'God has seen, and has given judgement' means that the Lord's Divine - the Divine within Him and which is His - effected it.

  
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