Two Nations 0ld

25:23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two 
There are many ways we might understand this verse.  Look at the present 

Speaking in general the conquered nation is more or less consumed by the captured one.

In the millenium of the Old Testament it was successively Israel and Egypt; 

Blake might have called these pairs of nations ‘contraries’, and


It was named from  Blake’s poem which asked the question, “did he who 
It was named from  Blake’s poem which asked the question, “did he who 
It was named from  Blake’s poem which asked the question, “did he who 
In a much later book called The Great Code, or The Bible and Literature 
In a much later book called The Great Code, or The Bible and Literature 
Another example might be David and the ‘Son of David’. 

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From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; (Erdman 34)
“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason[.] Evil is the active springing from Energy.
 Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)

In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)
In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)
In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)

In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)
In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)

In Jerusalem plate 24:Albion
(ashamed) says:
"What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful Human Words!
You recoil back upon me in the blood of the Lamb slain in his Children.
Two bleeding Contraries equally true, are his Witnesses against me
We reared mighty Stones: we danced naked around them:
Thinking to bring Love into light of day,"
(This is a suggestion of Moses and the Golden Calf, two Contraries indeed.)