Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5020

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5020. 'And fled, and went out of doors' means that it nevertheless separated itself. This is clear from the meaning of 'fleeing, and going out of doors' as separating itself, as above in 5009. These then are the falsities told by Potiphar's wife to the men of the house regarding Joseph, meaning in the internal sense the falsities which unspiritual natural truth tells regarding spiritual natural truth or which the unspiritual natural man tells regarding the spiritual natural man, see 4988, 4992, 5008.


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