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Genesis 33:12

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12 Derpå sagde Esau: "Lad os nu bryde op og drage af Sted, og jeg vil drage foran dig!"


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Arcana Coelestia #4363

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4363. Verses 8-11. And he said, What to thee are all these camps which I met? And he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord. And Esau said, I have much, my brother, be to thee what is to thee. And Jacob said, Nay I pray, if I pray I have found grace in thine eyes, then accept my present from my hand; for because that I have seen thy faces like seeing the faces of God, and thou hast accepted me. Take I pray my blessing that is brought to thee, because God hath graciously bestowed upon me, and because I have all. And he urged him, and he took it. “And he said, What to thee are all these camps which I met?” signifies the special things which are thence derived; “and he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord,” signifies grateful initiation; “and Esau said, I have much, my brother, be to thee what is to thee,” signifies tacit acceptance, in order that he might thus instill the affection of the good from truth; “and Jacob said, Nay I pray,” signifies the first beginning of affection; “if I pray I have found grace in thine eyes, then accept my present from my hand,” signifies the reciprocal of affection in order that it might be instilled; “for because that I have seen thy faces like seeing the faces of God, and thou hast accepted me,” signifies the affection itself in the perception with which it was reciprocally instilled; “take I pray my blessing that is brought to thee,” signifies the Divine things that were to be adjoined to Divine good natural; “because God hath graciously bestowed upon me,” signifies from Providence; “and because I have all,” signifies His spiritual riches; “and he urged him, and he took it,” signifies that from the good of truth this affection was instilled by means of affection inspired by Divine good.

  
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