Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10462

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10462. 'And he took the calf which they had made' means the delight which that nation took in idolatrous worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'the calf' as the delight belonging to the Israelite nation's external kinds of love, from which their worship, being idolatrous, sprang and with which it accorded, dealt with above in 10407, 10459.


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