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创世记 38:16

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16 犹大就到他那里去,罢!让我与你同寝。他原不知道是他的儿妇。他玛:你要与我同寝,把甚麽我呢?

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Arcana Coelestia #4838

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4838. 'So that he should not provide seed for his brother' means that this being so there was no continuation. This is clear from the meaning of 'providing seed for a brother', or performing the duty of a husband's brother, as continuing that which constitutes the Church, dealt with above in 4835, which shows that 'not providing seed for his brother' means that, this being so, there was no continuation.

4835, but the Latin is 4834.

  
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