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Arcana Coelestia #1084

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1084. 'They took a garment' means that they placed a good interpretation on it. This is clear from what has been stated already. 'Taking a garment and covering someone's nakedness' can have no other meaning when 'being uncovered' and 'nakedness' mean errors and perversities.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #7968

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7968. 'On their shoulder' means supported with all the power they had. This is clear from the meaning of 'shoulder' as all power, dealt with in 1085, 4931-4937.

  
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The Bible

 

Genesis 9:23

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23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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