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Secrets of Heaven #804

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804. The added phrase every human means that these things existed in the people under discussion. It is a general closure that embraces everything before it. Such tags occur in many places. 1

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1. Swedenborg describes Genesis 7:10; 8:14, 18-19; 9:7; 10:30; 20:16; 22:18, 23; 27:17, 45; 29:13; 37:1; and Exodus 15:9 as offering summations by means of a particular phrase, though many different phrases are used, and they do not always appear in final position in translations of the Bible. See §§753, 899, 915, 916, 1018, 1249, 2578, 2854, 2866, 3546, 3617, 3810, 4667:1, 9483. [LHC]

  
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Secrets of Heaven #9483

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So far, this translation contains passages up through #5190. It's probably still a work in progress. If you hit the left arrow, you will find that last number that's been translated.

  
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Secrets of Heaven #1249

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1249. These words symbolize how far their worship extended: from religious truth to charitable good. Mesha symbolizes truth; Sephar symbolizes what is good. But these meanings cannot be illustrated from the Word, because the prophets make no mention of Mesha or Sephar. Still, it can be seen from the fact that the verse forms a conclusion for the words leading up to it. In particular, it can be seen from the fact that the mountain of the east is the final image, to which everything before it looks, and in the Word an eastern mountain symbolizes charity from the Lord, as the following section establishes. It can also be seen from the fact that everything about the church looks to charity as its final goal. The logical conclusion, then, is that Mesha symbolizes truth, or the starting point, while Sephar symbolizes goodness and therefore charity (the mountain of the east), or the end point.

  
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