Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10520

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10520. But how it serves to join them together cannot be understood by those who do not know anything about the internal or spiritual sense of the Word since their thought does not go beyond its external sense, which is the sense of the letter. It is the internal or spiritual sense of the Word that enables anyone to know what is meant by the body and blood, by the bread and wine, and also by the eating.


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