Arcana caelestia; the heavenly arcana contained in the Holy Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, unfolded, beginning with the book of Genesis: together with wonderful things seen in the world of spirits and in the heaven of angels

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ΡRE FACE.

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2135.' GENESIS. 379

2135. THE natur an qualit of the interna sons of tho ord, and ho it is porceived by the angois hil si Dis road by

man, a more Speciali appear Dom his hapter froni hohistorica sons of tho letter noth in eis is undet Alood, hantha Johovali app0are to Abraham unde the sortii of throomon and that Sarai, Abraham, an his ad repare 1 od sorthem, Vig. euke of sne sotir, a Oung X, an also ultor and milli; hieli hings, although the aro historica trullis, and wero reali fulsilod, et aremo perceive so by the angois, hoaltogother abstractedi from the letior, have a percoption Os thothings represente and igni sed accordin to the explicationgiven in the conteno n. 136-2141; thus instea of tho histori ea relation the perceiv the stat O the Lord' percoption in the humani ty, and ommunication a that timo illi ho Divini ty, e re tho perseet union o His Divino Essenuo illitho human, and of the human with tho Divine; hieli stato salso that, concerning hieli the Lord thus speatis ne hath

concerning hicli se the explication and fui ther, in rogari towhat is suid of the son honi Sarai Ahould ear at tho state itime of another ear, the pereeive Ont this that the orti's human rational partir principi e should euomo Divine Hastly, in respeet o lini Abraham spatio illi Johovali concerning the ovorthrow of Sodom and Gomorrat, the have a pereeption Otiioth in selso ut of the Lorii' interesession or manlii nil and by the numbers sty forty-sve sorty thii ty twenty, and ten, the are texto a perception O the Lord' intercession or thoso with whom trullis hori id bo adjoine i to goodness, and hostiould attain good by temptations and combais, O by therstates and socii is in respectri allisther passagos in the Ord, a may belle appear rom the explication Os uel particular expre8Sion, here it is hown that a like signification is involvod

In tho origina it is expressed The sonis a coae.

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in lilio exprossion both n the historica an prophetica paris oltho ord That thoro is sueti an interna sense in tho ordthrougho ut, reatin solet of the Lord, o His ingdom in thoheavens, O His hiaret in the artiis, and with ver individual person in particular consequently reating of the good hings 1 lovo, and of tho trullis O saith may appen to Very one fromtho passages ut of the old Testamen cite by the Evangol

ox. 1 that these oriis relato to the Lord, oes no appear Domitio litora sense of tho passago ascit stan is in the book of Psalms, and yo that tho Lord alon is sere meant, Hemimself eaches

means Onceive thone What is heir interna Sense, hen never-

tholes it appears froni the Evangelis that he hau sueti an interna sense again in the Samo Evangestist, ' Out of E Fi

Inson: tho callei thom so the went rom heir saces, and I ad Ephraim to go, Λi 1 3 the whoano no that hereis an in tornat ense in very par of the 'Vord, muS need COnceivo that Jacob is here meant, hei ho sent down into Egypt, an his poSterit When they eam sortii rom thorace, and that by Ephraim is meant tho tribu o Ephraim, and thus that this PaSSage contain the Same things as ure recordei in the historicalparis Of the ori nox orthol0s it is lain froni the Evangeli St, that halcis here sati by tbo Propho rotatos to the Lord; ut what is signised by aeli particular expression, an Oni boknown by uti solii in the interna sense.

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GENESIS. 38ICHAPTER XVIII.

aro forosed hero to adopi tho Latin ord farina there bella non in urlangvages t expres that particular par of the nota lisero meant, and which. Recordin to the Author' explication bolo n. 2 , has a determinato und distinctsignifiention

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him.