Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 3666

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3666. Verses 3-5 And God Shaddai will bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you; and you will be an assembly of peoples. And He will give you the blessing of Abraham, you and your seed with you, to inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham. And Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

'God Shaddai will bless you' means the temptations to which that truth and good was subjected and by means of which the joining together was effected. 'And make you fruitful and multiply you' means the goods and truths deriving from that joining together. 'And you will be an assembly of peoples' means abundance. 'And He will give you the blessing of Abraham' means the joining of the Divine itself to the good and truth of the natural. 'You and your seed with you' means to the good and the truth born from this good. 'To inherit the land of your sojournings' means the life acquired through receiving instruction. 'Which God gave to Abraham' means which is received from the Divine. 'And Isaac sent Jacob away' means the beginning of the manifestation [of the Divine Natural]. 'And he went to Paddan Aram' means here, as previously, the cognitions of that truth. 'To Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean' means a parallel good. 'The brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother' means the relationship through the mother of the good of truth, represented by 'Jacob', with the truth of good, represented by 'Esau'.


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