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Hän vastasi minulle: 'Herra, jonka edessä minä olen vaeltanut, lähettää enkelinsä sinun kanssasi ja antaa matkasi onnistua, niin että saat pojalleni vaimon minun suvustani ja isäni perheestä.
3135. 'He went to the men' means that it attached itself, that is to say, the affection for truth represented by 'Laban', 3129, 3130, allied itself to truth meant by 'the man', 3134, both of which were in the natural man.
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3130. 'His name was Laban' means the essential nature of that affection. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' as a person's character or nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724. Here therefore 'Laban' means the essential nature of that affection which is being dealt with.
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