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Genesis 33:3

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3 αυτος- D--NSM δε-X προερχομαι-VBI-AAI3S εμπροσθεν-P αυτος- D--GPM και-C προςκυνεω-VAI-AAI3S επι-P ο- A--ASF γη-N1--ASF επτακις-D εως-P ο- A--GSN εγγιζω-VA--AAN ο- A--GSM αδελφος-N2--GSM αυτος- D--GSM

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Arcana Coelestia #3616

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3616. 'And I send and fetch you from there' means that at that point the end in view has been reached. This is clear from what comes before and after; for the end in view, meant here by 'sending and fetching you from there', is reached when truth accords with good, and in that way truth has been made subject to good, and is subservient to it. This end, following Jacob's stay with Laban, is represented by the occasion when Esau ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept, Genesis 33:4. For when the end in view, which is conjunction, is reached, the good of the rational flows into the good of the natural directly, and through the good of the natural into the truth there, as well as indirectly through the truth of the rational into the truth of the natural, and through the truth of the natural into the good there, 3573. From this it is evident why Rebekah, who represents the truth of the rational, said to Jacob, who represents the truth of the natural, 'I send and fetch you from there'.

  
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