Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7562

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7562. 'And he that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh' means those things in the natural mind which were the Lord's. This is clear from the meaning of 'he that feared the word of Jehovah' as the things which are the Lord's, for in the internal sense 'one who fears' is not used to mean a person who fears but a certain thing or reality (in heaven an idea involving a person is changed into an idea involving some reality, see 5225, 5287, 5434, and therefore 'he that feared the word of Jehovah' means the goodness and truth that are from the Lord); and from the meaning of 'the servants of Pharaoh' as things that belong to the natural mind. 'Pharaoh' is the natural in general, see 5160, 5799, and 'his servants' are therefore the things that are in the natural, or what amounts to the same, things that are in the natural mind, since the things in the natural which a person uses in thinking and reaching conclusions constitute his mind. Which things in the natural mind are the Lord's and which are not the Lord's, see below in 7564.


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