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Exodus 21:36

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36 Or if it be known that the ox had charged·​·out from yesterday and the day before, and its master has not kept it in; repaying he shall repay an ox instead of the ox, and the dead one shall be for him.


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Arcana Coelestia # 9008

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9008. 'Shall surely die' means damnation. This is clear from the meaning of 'surely dying' as damnation, dealt with in 5407, 6119, 7494. The reason why 'death' means damnation is that with those who have been damned the truths of faith and forms of the good of charity have been wiped out. These are what constitute the most real kind of life a person has, for they are received from the Lord, who is the one and only source of life. When they have been wiped out their place is then taken by falsities and evils; and these, being the opposites of truths and forms of good which are the constituents of life, are therefore the constituents of death - spiritual death, which is damnation, hell, and eternal unhappiness. The reason why those immersed in evils and falsities, that is, those who are in hell, continue to be alive is that they were born human beings and consequently have the ability to receive life from the Lord. And they do receive life from the Lord, as much life as will enable them to think, reason, and speak, to make their evil look like good and their falsity like truth, and so to give the appearance of life.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.