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Genesis 34:1

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1 ἐκἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *δινα-N---NSF ὁ- A--NSF θυγάτηρ-N3--NSF *λεια-N---GSF ὅς- --ASF τίκτω-VBI-AAI3S ὁ- A--DSM *ἰακώβ-N---DSM καταμανθάνω-VB--AAN ὁ- A--APF θυγάτηρ-N3--APF ὁ- A--GPF ἐγχώριος-A1--GPF

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Arcana Coelestia #4465

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

4465. 'By circumcising every male among you' means a merely external representative, and then to them they would be pure. This is clear from the meaning of 'circumcising every male' as an external representative - the sign that they belonged to the Church, in this case to their semblance of religion, dealt with above in 4462. The fact that they would then be pure in their eyes follows from this, for the descendants of Jacob saw no purity or holiness in internal things, only in external ones.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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