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Бытие 44:24

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24 Итакъ, когда мы пришли къ рабу твоему, отцу моему; то пересказали ему слова господина моего.

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Arcana Coelestia #5837

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5837. 'And your servants will cause the grey hair of your servant our father to go down in sorrow to the grave' means that the Church will be done for. This is clear from the explanation above in 5832, where similar words occur. The reason why Israel, to whom 'father' refers, here means the Church is that spiritual good, which he represents, makes the Church with a person, so much so that whether you say spiritual good or the Church it amounts to the same thing; for the two are inseparable. This is why in the Word, especially the prophetical part, 'Israel' is the spiritual Church.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5832

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5832. 'You will cause my grey hair to go down in evil to the grave' means that spiritual good and so the internal aspect of the Church is going to perish. This is clear from the representation of 'Israel' as spiritual good, dealt with in 5807, 5812, 5813, 5817, 5819, 5825, and as the internal aspect of the spiritual Church, 4286; from the meaning of 'grey hair' as the final phase of the Church, [dealt with in 5550;] and from the meaning of 'going down in evil to the grave' as perishing, dealt with in 4785. Going down in good to the grave describes rising again and being regenerated, 2916, 2917, 5551, and therefore 'going down in evil to the grave' is the opposite, namely perishing. As regards a perishing of the internal aspect of the Church if the truth represented by 'Benjamin' perishes, the situation is this: For good to be good it must have its own truths, and for truths to be truths they must have their own good. Without truths good is not good, even as truths without good are not truths; together they constitute a marriage, which is called the heavenly marriage. Consequently if one departs the other perishes; and one can depart from the other by being torn to pieces by evils and falsities.

  
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