Arcana Coelestia - 1882 Author:Emanuel Swedenborg Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: That by these words is signified much scarcity in his external man, appears from the signification of famine, spoken of above in this verse. The arcana here cont... more »ained are too many to admit of a brief explication ; suffice it to observe, that the Lord had the power of learning superior to any other man ; but as he was to be instructed in things celestial, previous to his instruction in things spiritual, in which respect his case differed from that of other men, therefore this statement is made. A. further reason is, because there was hereditary evil from the mother in his external man, against which he was to fight, and which he was to overcome. Not to mention innumerable other reasons. 1465. Verse 11. And it came to pass, when Jie drew nigh, to come into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a beautiful wom-an to look upon. " And it came to,pass, wjien'he drew nigh to come into Egypt," signifies when he began to learn; Egypt, as was said, is the science of knowledges : " that he said unto Sarai his wife," signifies, that thus he thought concerning truths to which things celestial were adjoined ; Sarai as a wife is truth adjoined to the celestial things which were with the Lord : " Behold, now, I know that thou art a beautiful woman to look upon," signifies, that truth from a celestial origin is delightful. 1466. " And it came to pass, when he drew nigh to come into Egypt."—That by these words is signified, when he began to learn, appears from the signification of Egypt, as denoting the science of knowledges; of which when to draw nigh to is predicated, nothing else can be signified by it. 1467. That Egypt is the science of knowledges, appears from what was said and shewn concerning Egypt in the preceding verse. 1468. " He said unto S...« less