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And thou seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire to her, that thou wouldest have her for thy wife:
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Apocalypse Revealed # 488
488. "For it has been given to the gentiles." This symbolically means, because, owing to evil practices, the state of that church has been lost and forsaken. This follows from the symbolic meaning of gentiles as being people caught up in evil practices, and abstractly, evil practices themselves (nos. 147, 483).
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and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
