Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 265

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265. Further particulars concerning the Word. The term "word," in the Hebrew tongue, signifies various things; namely, speech, the thought of the mind, everything which has a real existence, and also something, no. 9987. The Word signifies the Divine Truth and the Lord, nos. 4692, 5075, 9987. Words signify truths, nos. 4692, 5075. They signify doctrinals, no. 1288. The ten words signify all Divine Truths, no. 10688. They signify the thing which have a real existence, nos. 1785, 5075, 5272. In the Word, particularly in its prophetic portion, two expressions are used concerning one thing one has reference to good, and the other to truth, and they are thus conjoined, nos. 683, 707, 2516, 8339. Which expression has relation to good, and which to truth, can be known only from the internal sense of the Word; for there are special words by which the things which have reference to good are expressed, and there are special words by which the things which have reference to truth are expressed, nos. 793, 801. And this is carried so far, that from the mere words which are predicated, it may be known whether the subject treated of is good, or whether it is truth, no. 2722. Sometimes also in one expression is involved something general, and in another something that has been determined by [that] general, no. 2212. There is a kind of reciprocation in the Word, concerning which see no. 2240. Most things in the Word have also an opposite meaning, no. 4816. The internal sense follows its subject, in the manner of a predicate, no. 4502. Those who have been delighted with the Word, in the other life receive the heat of heaven, in which there is heavenly love, according to the quality and the quantity of their delight from love, no. 1773.


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