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Genesis 18:24

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24 If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

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Arcana Coelestia #2270

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2270. Verse 29. And he added yet to speak unto Him, and said, Peradventure forty shall be found there; and He said, I will not do it for forty’s sake. “He added yet to speak unto Him,” signifies thought; “and said, Peradventure forty shall be found there,” signifies those who have been in temptations; “and He said, I will not do it for forty’s sake,” signifies that they shall be saved.

  
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