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창세기 2:9

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9 여호와 하나님이 그 땅에서 보기에 아름답고 먹기에 좋은 나무가 나게 하시니 동산 가운데에는 생명나무와 선악을 알게하는 나무도 있더라

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Arcana Coelestia #122

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122. Verse 15 And Jehovah God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to care for it.

'The garden of Eden' means all the qualities of the celestial man which are the subject here. 'Tilling it and caring for it' means that he is allowed to enjoy all these things but not to possess them as his own, since they are the Lord's.

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