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Abram était âgé de quatre-vingt-six ans lorsqu'Agar enfanta Ismaël à Abram.
417. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 16
1-16 Conjunction of the truth and good of the natural man, from which there would be only an external church, which is rational.
But concerning all this see Arcana Coelestia, where [it is explained that] these things pertaining to the church signify things pertaining to the Lord; for all things of the Word in the spiritual sense treat of the church and heaven, but in the celestial sense of the Lord. (2)
Flight, as in Matthew 14:20, signifies removal from a state of the good of love and innocence.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 3755; Mark 8, Mark 8:18)