Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4846

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4846. 'For he said' means thought. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perceiving, and also as thinking, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 3395. Here therefore 'he said' means that he said or thought to himself that Tamar should not be given as a wife to Shelah his son; and in the internal sense means that the internal things of the representative Church should be alienated, 4844.


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