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1 Mose 44:31

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31 so wird es geschehen, daß er stirbt, wenn er sieht, daß der Knabe nicht da ist; und deine Knechte werden das graue Haar deines Knechtes, unseres Vaters, mit Kummer hinabbringen in den Scheol.

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Arcana Coelestia #5755

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5755. 'Far be it from your servants to do a thing such as this' means when this thing - laying claim to truth as their own - is not the intention of their will. This is clear from the meaning of 'doing' as the intention of the will, for all deeds are acts of the will. A deed is in itself something natural, whereas the will is something spiritual from which the deed springs. 'Far be it from your servants' means it is not so - not intended by the will.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.