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Genesis 50:24

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24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Arcana Coelestia #6354

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6354. Into their secret let not my soul come. That this signifies that spiritual good does not desire to know the evils that are of their will, is evident from the representation of Israel, who says this of himself, as being spiritual good (see n. 6340); and from the signification of “not coming into a secret,” as being not to desire to know, namely, the evils of the will that are signified by “Simeon and Levi” (n. 6352); it is said “my soul” because by “soul” is here signified the life of good belonging to spiritual good; the life of its truth is signified by “glory,” of which in what follows.

  
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