Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4543

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4543. 'And Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him' means the arrangement within the kind of natural good that existed at that point. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying to his household, and to all who were with him' as arrangement, and from the representation of 'Jacob' here as natural good, dealt with above in 4538. The reason 'saying to his household, and to all who were with him' means arrangement is that in what follows next the subject in the internal sense is the arrangement of truths by good; for when spiritual good, dealt with above in 4538, starts to play the leading role in the natural mind it arranges into order the truths that are there.


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