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Nombres 9:10

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10 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et leur dis : Quand quelqu'un d'entre vous, ou de votre postérité, sera souillé pour un mort, ou qu'il sera en voyage dans un lieu éloigné, il fera cependant la Pâque à l'Eternel.

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Judgment

  

'Judgment' refers to times when evil is brought to its height. Judgment' has two sides, a principle of good and a principle of truth. The faithful are judged from a principle of good, but the unfaithful, from a principle of truth. In Revelation 17:1, judgement signifies the state of the church at its end.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 17; Arcana Coelestia 2319)


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Arcana Coelestia #2319

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2319. 'The two angels' means the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding to which judgement belongs. This is clear both from the meaning of 'angels' in the Word and from the fact that the expression 'two angels' is used here. In the Word 'angels' means some Divine essential in the Lord, though which essential becomes clear from the train of thought, as shown already in 1925. That here the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding are meant is evident from the consideration that the three men who stayed with Abraham meant the Divine itself, the Lord's Divine Human, and His Holy proceeding, 2149, 2156, 2288. From this, and from the fact that they are called 'Jehovah' in verse 24, and also from the meaning of 'angels', 1925, it is plain that 'the two angels' is here used to mean the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding.

  
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