路加福音 1:31

³¹ 你要懷孕生子，可以給他起名叫耶穌。

Arcana Coelestia #10247

10247. 'That they may not die' means so that what is representative may not be lost, as above in 10244.

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

²² What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.