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Genesis 16:6

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6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #2652

Studere hoc loco

  
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2652. The son of Hagar the Egyptian. That this signifies into the merely human rational, and that “Hagar the Egyptian” is the affection of memory-knowledges, of which that rational was born as a mother, is evident from the signification of the “son,” namely Ishmael, as being the first rational which the Lord had-treated of in Genesis 16, where Hagar and Ishmael are the subject-also from his representation, and that of Hagar the Egyptian, his mother, explained under that chapter. (That the first or merely human rational in the Lord was conceived from the Divine celestial as a father, and born of the affection of memory-knowledges as a mother, may be seen above, n. 1895, 1896, 1902, 1910.)

  
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