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Exodo 9:17

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17 Nagmamalaki ka pa ba laban sa aking bayan, na ayaw mo silang payaunin?

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Flax

  

Flax, as in Exodus 9:31, signifies truth of the natural exterior principle. A smoking flax, as in Isaiah 42:3, signifies a bit of truth from good. Flax, or linen, as in Hosea 2:5, 9, signifies truth from the literal sense of the Word.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 7600; Isaiah 9, 19, 19:9)


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Hosea 2:9

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9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.