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Exodus 21:21

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21 Only if he shall stand for a day or two, he shall not be avenged, because he is his silver.


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Arcana Coelestia #9073

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9073. 'And it kills a man or a woman' means if it then destroys the truth or the good of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying; and from the meaning of 'a man' as the truth of faith, and of 'a woman' as the good of faith, as above in 9065.

  
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