Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2931

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2931. 'To let me bury my dead from before me' means that they wished to emerge from night and rise again. This is clear from the meaning of 'burying' as rising again, and of 'one who is dead' as night as regards the goods and truths of faith, dealt with above in 2923, 2925, where the same words occur.


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