Substance and treasures
In Genesis 7:4, this signifies man's proprium, which seems destroyed when vivified by the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 731)
In Genesis 7:23, this signifies lusts belonging to self-love. (Arcana Coelestia 808)
In Genesis 34:23, this signifies all acquired knowledge. (Arcana Coelestia 4508)
In Jeremiah 17:3, these stand for the spiritual riches of faith. (Arcana Coelestia 368)
In Genesis 31:18, this signifies the separation of the truths and goods of the new state from those of the old state. (Arcana Coelestia 4105)
In Luke 8:3, this signifies the church which serves the Lord with goods and truths implanted in life. (Arcana Coelestia 3310)
Genesis 31:18
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and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
