The Bible

 

Genesis 4:24

Study

       

24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #380

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

380. Verse 12 When you till the ground, it will not yield its strength a wanderer and a fugitive you will be in the land.

'Tilling the ground' means cultivating this schism or heresy. 'Not yielding its strength to you' means that it is sterile. 'Being a wanderer and a fugitive in the land' means not knowing what truth and good are.

  
/ 10837  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.