9054. 'Foot for foot' means if anything of the power of natural truth [is injured]. This is clear from the meaning of 'foot' as the natural, dealt with in 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, [in particular] the power of natural truth, 5327, 5328.
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