Arcana Coelestia (Potts) n. 7782

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7782. And there shall be a great cry in the whole land of Egypt. That this signifies interior lamentation, is evident from the signification of a "cry" (here made on account of the dead firstborn, in the internal sense on account of damnation), as being lamentation. That "a great cry" denotes interior lamentation, is because the greater the lamentation is, the more interior it is.


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