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Genesis 43:7

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7 and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

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Arcana Coelestia #5591

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5591. 'For the man said to us' means a perception regarding the spiritual. This is clear from the meaning of 'the man' as the spiritual from the internal, dealt with above in 5584; and from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perception, often dealt with already.

  
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