Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7916

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7916. 'According to your families' means in keeping with the good of each truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'families', when used in reference to the children of Israel, by whom the spiritual Church is represented, as forms of the good of truth; for that Church's forms of good are called forms of the good of truth. They are meant by 'families because nothing else is understood in the spiritual sense by 'families than spiritual things, that is, things of heaven and the Church, and so aspects of faith and charity. So it is that 'families', which in the spiritual sense are the descendants of good through truth, are forms of the good of truth.


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