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What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Genesis 18:24
Arcana Coelestia # 2199
2199. That 'well advanced in years' means that the time was at hand follows from what has now been stated. 'A day' in the Word, as also 'a year', and indeed 'time' in general, means state, as shown in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893. Thus: here 'advanced in years' means, in the internal sense, entering that state in which He was to cast off the human, and so means that the time was at hand.
