Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6859

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6859. 'And the Amorite and the Perizzite' means occupied by evils and the falsities that arise from them. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857, 6306; and from the representation of 'the Perizzite' as falsity, dealt with in 1573, 1574. There are two sources of evil, and there are also two sources of falsity. One source of evil lies in false teaching or else false religion, the other in desires belonging to self-love and love of the world. Falsity from the first source springs, as stated, from false teaching or else false religion, while falsity from the second source springs from the evil which the desires belonging to self-love and love of the world crave after. Those evils are what 'the Canaanite' and 'the Amorite' mean, and the falsities what 'the Hittite' and 'the Perizzite' mean.


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