Arcana Coelestia (Potts) n. 9510

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9510. Of solid gold shalt thou make them. That this signifies a representative of this good, is evident from the signification of "gold," as being the good of love (see n. 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6917); that gold is not the good of love, but the representative of it, is manifest; in like manner the olive-wood of which the cherubs in the temple at Jerusalem were made (1 Kings 6:23). (That "olive-wood" denotes the good of love, see n. 886; and also the "oil" itself, n. 3728, 4582, 4638.)


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