Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7740

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7740. 'Rightly have you spoken' means that that is in truth so. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking rightly' as its being so, indeed being meant also by 'rightly', 5434, 5437. By the explanation 'that is in truth so is meant their arrival now at a state in which they have no wish at all to know anything about God's truth; and should it enter their mind it would be thrown out, in keeping with what has been shown just above in 7738.


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