348. * but say that they still cannot act accordingly. As long as they are in this state of mind, which God the Messiah brings upon them by [arousing] various feelings, then it is as if their earth-bound soul becomes quiet, and does not function. But as soon as they come into a different state, nearer to their normal one, they backslide, harboring nothing but enmity, etc. etc.
7120. [Num. 13:] verse 29. Those are called "Amalekites" who are in the light of spiritual knowledge about God the Messiah and His Kingdom. Therefore, they are said "to dwell in the south"; while those absorbed in their own longings arising from the love of themselves and of the world and called demons, are "the Hittite, the Jebusite and the Amorite." 7121. For they are even gifted with a cunning nature that one would never believe possible, seizing upon anything whatever that a person is thinking, and
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