Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5426

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5426. 'To buy food' means to make the truth of good their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'buying' as making one's own, dealt with in 4397, 5374, 5406, 5410; and from the meaning of 'food' as the truth of good, dealt with in 5293, 5340, 5342.


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