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Exodus 23:14-19 : The Three Annual Festivals

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14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Commentary

 

Hours

  

'Hours' signify states.

(References: Divine Love and Wisdom 73)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings #116

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116. Believing what the Word or the church teaches and not living by it may look like faith, and some may even conjecture that they are saved by it; but the truth is that no one is saved by faith alone. Faith alone is a conviction one deliberately induces in oneself; 1 therefore I need now to describe the nature of such self-induced convictions.

Footnotes:

1. The Latin term here translated "conviction one deliberately induces in oneself" and elsewhere as "self-induced conviction" is fides persuasiva, literally, "persuasive faith. " On this Latin phrase, see note 1 in New Jerusalem 49. [Editors]

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.