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And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.
Genesis 17:12
Arcana Coelestia # 2058
2058. That soul shall be cut off from his peoples. That this signifies eternal death, is evident from the signification of “soul,” as being life (n. 1000, 1040, 1742); and from the signification of “peoples,” as being truths (see n. 1259, 1260). Thus “peoples” are they who live in truths, that is, angels; and for a “soul to be cut off” from these, is to be damned, or to perish in eternal death.
