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Jeremia 42:16

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16 så skall svärdet, som I frukten för, hinna upp eder där i Egyptens land, och hungersnöden, som I rädens för, skall följa efter eder dit till Egypten, och där skolen I .

Commentary

 

Mizraim

  

'Mizraim' signifies the same thing as Egypt.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1165)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #108

  
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108. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 42

1-6 The remains or those left consulted doctrine, (2)

7-22 but they were told, that if they would continue simply in their external worship, and would not consult knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, they would be saved; if they should consult them, all truth and good of worship would perish. (2)

  
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