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Genesis 16:4

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4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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Arcana Coelestia #1905

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1905. 'Hagar her Egyptian servant-girl' means the life of the exterior man and the affection for knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'Hagar', dealt with above in 1895, 1896, and from the meaning of 'Egyptian' as well as of 'servant-girl', also dealt with in those paragraphs.

  
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