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Exodus 12:30

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30 And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

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Arcana Coelestia #7921

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7921. 'And strike the lintel and the two doorposts' means the forms of good and the truths of the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the lintel' as the good of the natural, and from the meaning of 'the doorposts' as the truths of it, dealt with in 7847.

  
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