Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5306

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5306. 'And Pharaoh said to his servants' means the perception by the natural and of everything in it. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perceiving, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2061, 2238, 2619, 2862, 3395, 3509; from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the natural, dealt with in 5079, 5080, 5095, 5160; and from the meaning of 'his servants' as everything in the natural, dealt with immediately above in 5305.


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