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Arcana Coelestia #491

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491. The same things are signified by “sons” and “daughters” in this chapter (verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30), but such as is the church, such are the “sons and daughters” that is, such are the goods and truths; the truths and goods here spoken of are such as were distinctly perceived, because they are predicated of the Most Ancient Church, the principal and parent of all the other and succeeding churches.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #6021

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6021. 'His daughters and his sons' daughters' means forms of good in their own order. This is clear from the meaning of 'daughters' as forms of good, dealt with in 489-491, 2362, 3963. Forms of good are also meant by 'the daughters of sons', but such forms as spring from those truths, thus in their own order, in the same way as the sons referred to immediately above.

  
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