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1 Mose 24:1

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1 Abraham war alt und wohl betaget, und der HERR hatte ihn gesegnet allenthalben.

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Arcana Coelestia #3137

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3137. 'At the spring' means the enlightenment of them from Divine truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a spring' as truth, dealt with in 2702, 3096, here Divine truth, as above in 3131. Because the Word is Divine truth it is therefore called 'a spring'. That 'standing at the spring' here embodies in the internal sense the enlightenment of things in the natural man follows from the train of thought; for where Divine truth is, enlightenment is there.

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

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Josua 2:14

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14 Die Männer sprachen zu ihr: tun wir nicht Barmherzigkeit und Treue an dir, wenn uns der HERR das Land gibt, so soll unsere Seele für euch des Todes sein, sofern du unser Geschäft nicht verrätest.