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Bereshit 38:5

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5 ותסף עוד ותלד בן ותקרא את־שמו שלה והיה בכזיב בלדתה אתו׃

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Arcana Coelestia #4833

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

4833. 'And Jehovah caused him to die' means that there was no representative of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'dying' as ceasing to be such, dealt with in 494, and also as the end of representation, 3253, 3259, 3276. The meaning here therefore is that no representative of the Church could exist with any who would have been descended from him, as accords with what has been stated immediately above in 4832.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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