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But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. 0 And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breakingopen the doors.
86. The love of self, especially of ruling, and still thinking from the Word is adultery such as there was at Sodom; which is why they demanded the angels from Lot's house.
Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.