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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
'Out of thy nativity and out of thy father's house,' as in Genesis 12:1, signifies worldly, materially-oriented matters and things interior of a like kind.
'Nativities,' as in Genesis 10:1, signify the origin and roots of doctrinal matters and worship.
'Nativity,' as in Genesis 10:32, signifies reformation.
(Referenties: Arcana Coelestia 1255)