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Mateo第15章:36

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36 kaj li prenis la sep panojn kaj la fisxojn; kaj doninte dankon, li dispecigis ilin, kaj donis al la discxiploj, kaj la discxiploj al la homamasoj.

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When the Bible refers to where someone or something came from, it's internally talking about their spiritual origins, or the spiritual states that led them to their current state.

Time and space are physical realities which don't exist in the same way on a spiritual plane. Instead, people in the spiritual world experience differences in spiritual state. Someone in a different spiritual state appears distant, while someone in a similar spiritual state appears close. We get some glimpses of this; we can feel "close" to someone we love even if we are halfway around the world, based on the affection we have for them (affection being a spiritual state, even in this life).

(参考: Apocalypse Explained 105, 472; Apocalypse Revealed 376; Arcana Coelestia 278, 3031, 3776)

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Arcana Coelestia#3031

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3031. 'Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?' means whether it could nevertheless be joined to the Divine good of the Rational. This becomes clear from what has been stated already about Abram and about the land he came from, see 1343, 1356, 1992, 2559. From these paragraphs it is evident that the land from which Abram came was Syria, where the second Ancient Church existed, called the Hebrew Church after its founder Eber, 1238, 1241, 1327, 1343. But around the time of Abram this Church too had fallen away from the truth, some households so far away from it that they did not know Jehovah at all but worshipped other gods. This is the land which is meant here and to which the servant was referring when he asked whether he was required to take Abraham's son 'to the land from which you came'. Consequently 'the land' here means an affection which is not compatible with truth. This being the meaning of 'the land', 'taking his son there', or what amounts to the same, taking a woman for him and remaining with her there, means joining an affection incompatible with truth to the Divine good of the Rational. But this could not be done, as Abraham declares in his reply which follows.

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