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Numbers 1:45

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45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

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Explanation of Numbers 1:45

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 45. And thus they are ordinated and arranged with the man of the Spiritual Church, according to primary good, commencing from an intelligent perception and reception of the truths and goods of faith, and proceeding through conflicts against.

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Arcana Coelestia #556

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556. Since man now had no remnants of good and truth it is foretold that he would be formed differently so that he would have remnants, meant by 'a hundred and twenty years', verse 3.

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