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Sønderriv Hjerterne, ej eders Klæder, vend om til HE
EN eders Gud! Thi nådig og barmhjertig er han, langmodig og rig på Miskundhed, han angrer det onde.
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Sønderriv Hjerterne, ej eders Klæder, vend om til HE
EN eders Gud! Thi nådig og barmhjertig er han, langmodig og rig på Miskundhed, han angrer det onde.
The Project Gutenberg Association at Carnegie Mellon University
'A handmaid', as mentioned in Genesis 33:2, signifies the affection of sciences and knowledges and means serviceable to the conjunction of the external and internal self.
In Genesis 33:7, this signifies knowledge of external things derived from the world, which are the most common or general of all. This also signifies the affection of rational and scientific things.
In Genesis 30:3, this signifies the affirming medium of conjoining inner truths with natural or external truths.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 2567, 2657, Genesis 2)