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Matthew 7:25

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25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

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Hogs

  

In Leviticus 11:7 and Matthew 7:6, this signifies filthy loves of those in the hells of adulterers. (Apocalypse Explained 1044[4]) Swine signify people who love only worldly riches. (Apocalypse Revealed 727)

In Isaiah 65:4, this signifies appropriation of infernal evils. (Apocalypse Explained 659[2]) 'Swine' or 'hogs' correspond to the life of greed and its delight.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1742)

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Heaven and Hell #231

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231. It is the Divine truth that goes forth from the Lord that has all power in the heavens, for the Lord in heaven is Divine truth united to Divine good (see 126-140). To the extent that angels are receptions of this truth they are powers. 1 Moreover each one is his own truth and his own good because each one is such as his understanding and will are. The understanding pertains to truth because everything of it is from truths, and the will pertains to good because everything of it is from goods; for whatever any one understands he calls truth, and whatever he wills he calls good. From this it is that everyone is his own truth and his own good. 2 Therefore so far as an angel is truth from the Divine and good from the Divine he is a power, because to that extent the Lord is in him. And as no one's good and truth are wholly like or the same as another's, since in heaven, as in the world, there is endless variety (20), so the power of one angel is not like the power of another. Those who constitute the arms in the Greatest Man, or heaven, have the greatest power because such are more in truths than others, and into their truths good flows from the entire heaven. Moreover, the power of the whole man passes into the arms, and by means of these the whole body exercises its powers. It is for this reason that in the Word "arms" and "hand" signify powers. 3 Sometimes on this account a naked arm is seen in heaven so powerful as to be able to break in pieces everything in its way, even though it were a great rock on the earth. Once it was moved towards me, and I perceived that it was able to crush my bones to atoms.

Footnotes:

1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Angels are called powers and are powers from their reception of Divine truth from the Lord (Arcana Coelestia 9639).

Angels are recipients of Divine truth from the Lord and on this account are sometimes called "gods" in the Word (4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301, 9160)

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A man or an angel is his own good and his own truth, thus his own love and his own faith (10298, 10367).

He is his own understanding and his own will, for everything of life is therefrom; the life of good is from the will, and the life of truth is from the understanding (10076, 10177, 10264, 10284).

3. [Swedenborg's footnote] The correspondence of the hands, arms, and shoulders, with the Greatest man or heaven (4931-4937).

In the Word, "arms" and “hands” signify power (878, 3091, 4932-4933, 6947, 10019).

  
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