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Arcana Coelestia #7440

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7440. For if thou let not My people go. That this signifies if they would not release them, is evident from the signification of “letting go,” as being to release; and from the signification of the “people of Jehovah,” as being those who are of the Lord’s spiritual church (as just above, n. 7439).

  
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The Bible

 

Exodus 6:6

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6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: