Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9945

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9945. 'You shall make with the work of an embroiderer' means through cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer' as something that consists of factual knowledge, dealt with in 9688. The reason for saying through cognitions of goodness and truth is that 'cognitions' is used to mean knowledge about things of a more internal nature such as the Church possesses regarding faith and love. The reason why this kind of factual knowledge is meant here by 'the work of an embroiderer' is that 'the belt of the tunic', which was made from the work of an embroiderer, means the bond holding together the inmost thingsa of the spiritual kingdom, dealt with immediately above; and everything in the spiritual world is held in connection by means of cognitions and the affections resulting from them.

Notes

a Reading vinculum intimorum (the bond holding together the inmost inmost bond)


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