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1 Mose 34:27

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27 Die Söhne Jakobs kamen über die Erschlagenen und plünderten die Stadt, weil sie ihre Schwester entehrt hatten.

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Arcana Coelestia #4460

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4460. And spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. That this signifies that the initiation to conjunction, which could not be different, should be made by accession, may be seen from the explication of the words “he took her and lay with her and forced her,” by which is signified that in no other way could this truth be conjoined with the affection of the truth signified by the sons of Jacob her brothers (n. 4433). That he had “defiled” her here involves the like signification.

  
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