Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6660

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6660. 'To afflict them with burdens' means increasing distress caused by forms of hard service. This is clear from the meaning of 'afflicting' as increasing distress; and from the meaning of 'burdens', which were the tributes, as forms of hard service.


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