The Bible

 

創世記 30:42

Study

       

42 けれども群れの弱いものの時には、それを置かなかった。こうして弱いものはラバンのものとなり、強いものはヤコブのものとなったので、

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #3907

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

3907. And she said unto Jacob, Give me sons. That this signifies a desire to have interior truths from the good of natural truth, is evident from the representation of Jacob, as being the good of natural truth (see n. 3905); and from the signification of “sons,” as being truths (n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623); here interior truths because from Rachel, by whom is represented interior truth (n. 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819).

  
/ 10837  
  

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