Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6582

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6582. 'Joseph lived a hundred and ten years' means its state and essential nature. This is clear from the meaning of numbers in the Word as real things, dealt with in 575, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 5265, 6175; in particular the state and essential nature of a real thing is meant, 4670. Thus it is also with the number one hundred and ten, which contains the idea of the state and essential nature of the life of factual knowledge from the internal.


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