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synty 24:16

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16 Ja piika oli sangen ihana nähdä, ja vielä neitsy, ja ei yksikään mies ollut häneen ryhtynyt: hän meni alas kaivon tykö, ja täytti astiansa, ja tuli ylös.


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Arcana Coelestia #1260

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1260. Because in the Most Ancient and in the Ancient Church, nations signified goods, or good men, therefore in the opposite sense they signify evils, or evil men. In like manner peoples, because they signified truths, in the opposite sense signify falsities. For in a depraved church good is turned into evil, and truth into falsity. Hence comes the signification of “nations” and of “peoples” in this opposite sense in many places in the Word, as in Isaiah 13:4; 14:6; 18:2, 7; 30:28; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 20:32.

  
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