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창세기 4:8

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8 가인이 그 아우 아벨에게 고하니라 그 후 그들이 들에 있을때에 가인이 그 아우 아벨을 쳐 죽이니라

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Arcana Coelestia #378

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378. Verse 11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood 1 from your hand. 'You are cursed from the ground' means that he became alienated on account of schism. 'Which has opened its mouth' means whose teaching was such. 'To receive your brother's blood 1 from your hand' means that it did violence to charity, which it annihilated.

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1. literally, bloods

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