The Bible

 

Genesis 26:5

Study

       

5 because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #3442

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

3442. And he builded an altar there. That this signifies a significative and representative of the Lord, is evident from the signification of an “altar,” as being the principal representative of the the Lord, (n. 921, 2777, 2811).

  
/ 10837  
  

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