Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9991

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9991. 'And two rams without defect' means purification of the spiritual or internal man. This is clear from the meaning of 'a ram' as that which is internal and so spiritual in a person, dealt with in 2830; for the internal with a person is called spiritual and the external, natural. Purification is meant because the rams were offered as burnt offerings, and burnt offerings and sacrifices in general represented purifications from evils and falsities, or expiations, burnt offerings and sacrifices of rams representing purifications or expiations of the internal or spiritual man, which are dealt with in what follows in the present chapter, where they are the subject.


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