In Genesis 21:14, this signifies the state of wandering in the beginning, of people who have been introduced into the doctrinals of faith. (Arcana Coelestia 2679)
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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.