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Amos 9:4

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4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

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Huts

  

In Genesis 4:20, these signify the holy things of love and the goods that come from them. (Arcana Coelestia 414)

In Psalms 15:1, 2, these signify what is celestial and holy. (Arcana Coelestia 413-414)

In Genesis 33:17, these signify the holy principles of truth, common, general, or exterior.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 4392)

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Arcana Coelestia #413

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413. That 'Adah' means the mother of the celestial things of faith is clear from the fact that Jabal, her firstborn, is called 'the father of the tent-dweller and of cattle', which are celestial because they mean the holy things of love, and goods deriving from these.

  
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